Bodywash Return with ‘Come And Go’, a Song Rooted in Montreal’s Shifting Landscape

Montreal dream-pop duo Bodywash have released “Come And Go,” their first original track since 2023’s I Held The Shape While I Could. It’s jangly and immediate, built from a burst of in-person collaboration that marks a shift in how Rosie Long Decter and Chris Steward usually work.

Decter wrote the bones of the song at home, improvising on bass and vocals, then brought it to Steward in the studio. “Normally, I write on keys and make a demo, and he helps flesh it out, or vice versa,” she says. “But after our last album, we wanted to try writing more in the room together. As we played through the song together, and Chris wrote the riff, it came together really quickly in a shared burst of energy that’s only really possible in person.”

The lyrics map Montreal’s changing built environment—the highway, new university buildings, a strange light show in Laval—and the transient feeling of living as an artist here. Decter describes scenes shared with her girlfriend and bandmates, where “there could always be an end date on the horizon.” It’s a theme that threads through their work, but now it’s grounded in specific, everyday detail.

Bodywash’s last full-length leaned into textured, slow-burning dream-pop; this one-off, out now on Light Organ, distills that atmosphere into a clearer, guitar-chimed directness. It feels less like a standalone single than a snapshot of a band finding a quicker, more collective way to work together.