Jack Drinker releases a love song of hopefulness and naivety with "California King"
ack Drinker is a 24 year old indie pop artist and singer/songwriter living in Los Angeles. Through captivating melodies and storytelling lyrics, Drinker’s music often touches on themes of mental health, relationships, body image and loss, delivering songs that are deeply personal and refreshingly raw. As a graduate of UCLA’s Herb Alpert School Of Music, Drinker’s sound offers a musical maturity, with his upcoming releases set to explore a more experimental side.
Drinker’s latest single, “California King,” is a love song wrapped in hopefulness and naivety. The songwriter shares, “California King has a lightness and an excitement to it, but there’s also an awareness of the inevitable — that things won’t go the way I hope they do. I think it’s a very relatable representation of how we glorify people in our heads and build them up to be something that they never really were.”
Mixed by Alyssa Wilkens, with mastering by Ryan Schumer (Shawn Mendes, Burna Boy, Khalid, and Jon Bellion) and Carl Bahner (St. Lucia, Transviolet, Grace Abel), “California King” takes sonic inspiration from Gracie Abrams. Drinker’s emotion-fuelled vocals soar over a jangly guitar melody and driving percussion, resulting in an uplifting anthem that will have you chanting along, as he sings, “You’re a James Dean movie scene, speeding down the highway.”
Drinker’s music has received numerous radio plays and his debut EP, Dead Boy Walking, has surpassed 60K streams. The release of “California King” will be paired with a live show at the prestigious LA music venue, The Hotel Cafe, on December 20th.
