MUNA's Katie Gavin is officially in her solo era, releases first single

MUNA frontwoman Katie Gavin has officially gone solo.

Don't worry, the beloved "Silk Chiffon" trio hasn't disbanded or anything, but Gavin is set to release her solo LP, What A Relief, this fall. And today, she debuted the first single off the "Lilith Fair-core" record titled "Aftertaste."

"That song takes place inside of the magnetic force, when I’m really drawn to somebody and still feeling like it’s gonna work," Gavin shared in a statement. “Sometimes it’s fun to surrender to that feeling – I think a lot of songwriters have a strong relationship with romantic fantasy."

She went on, "'Aftertaste' is a sweet song about carrying a torch for someone, realizing that you are going out to concerts and parties hoping to run into them there. The song is a playing out of a fantasy, really, both because it involves confessing your crush and finding out that it is reciprocated."

Gavin chose this song as her first solo single because she thought it "it kind of serves as a bridge, sonically and thematically, between MUNA’s world and the world we are going to with the solo record."

On the record coming October 25th, Gavin said it "spans a lot of my life – it’s about having a really deep desire for connection, but also encountering all the obstacles that stood in my way to be able to achieve that, patterns of isolation or even boredom with the real work of love." What A Relief "explores and portrays it honestly, without shame.”

Watch the music video for "Aftertaste" below.