Indie-folk singer/songwriter Becca Caffyn returns with delicate new track ‘Late Day Sun’.
Indie-folk singer/songwriter Becca Caffyn returns with delicate new track ‘Late Day Sun’.
November 28th, 2025
Co-written in 2022 with Edward Liu (EDY) and Christian Tjandrawinata, ‘Late Day Sun’ ruminates on feelings of disillusionment and nostalgia, wrestling with an overwhelming fear of “getting left behind”.
Her first single following the release of 2024 EP Hallways, the track speaks to growing up and growing into yourself; working to discover the life you want to create while feeling as though the world is running laps around you. Written in the months leading up to Caffyn’s twentieth birthday, ‘Late Day Sun’ is about feeling like, instead of everything you hoped to do and all you aspired to be, all you’ve done is get older, and all you are is 20.
Doused in silky piano and rubber-bridge guitar, the track takes sonic inspiration from the likes of Phoebe Bridgers and Lizzy McAlpine.
‘Late Day Sun’ was produced, mixed, and mastered by Christian Tjandrawinata, recorded between Parachute Music’s Studio A and Christian’s home studio and coming together over a number of years.
With each passing year the single has only become more relatable to both Caffyn and her loyal live audience; its honesty and vulnerability cementing the track as a crowd favourite in live settings.
The single is accompanied by a music video, available to view here.
Directed by Alaina Wilks (Wrackler Films), ‘Late Day Sun’’s accompanying video hones in on the feelings of nostalgia in the track, depicting the dichotomy between youthful optimism and the wistfulness of your late-teens.
Visually, the video is laced with motifs of golden warm light, reminiscent of childhood memories, and cuts between Caffyn and her ‘younger self’, played by Charlotte Jaspers.
This single and video were made with the support of NZ On Air.
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Originally hailing from Hamilton, 23-year-old Becca Caffyn is a keen and observant writer; crafting honest lyrics and gentle melodies in her works.
Handpicked to join Parachute Music’s Artist Development Program in 2021, Caffyn spent a year in the studio honing her songwriting, working towards her debut collection of recordings. Following the release of her first single ‘Stair Kids’, Caffyn relocated to Dunedin in 2022, before releasing her debut EP ‘The Replacement Blonde’ in September of that year. Last year saw the release of her sophomore EP Hallways, with the title track spending nine weeks on the Radio One Top 11 and winning Radio One’s ‘Favourite Song of 2024’ at the Aotearoa Alternative Awards.
The last year has seen Caffyn and her band take the stage around the South Island, landing gigs such as the Dunedin Craft Beer and Food Festival, UCSA Orientation Week, OUSA Orientation Week, and support slots for acts such as The Rions, Frankie Venter, Letters to Lions, and Mim Jensen.
Taking influence from the indie-pop sensibilities of acts such as Julia Jacklin, Lizzy McAlpine, and Phoebe Bridgers, Caffyn is one to watch, melding a fascination with words with introspective bedroom folk.