Savannah, Georgia’s Chris Casey has unveiled his new EP, ‘Buried Out Back,’ a restless, genre-straddling project that cements his place in the increasingly blurred space between hip-hop, rock, and ‘90s alt eccentricity.

Alongside the release comes ‘Bodies,’ a breezy, electro-brushed single that closes out the record. For Casey, it’s the centerpiece. “I wrote the whole thing before I really knew if anything would catch, and now it hits harder,” he says of the track. “I’ve written braggy lines before, but this one feels earned—even though my career’s still small. The energy of it just screams “upward momentum,” and ending the EP with it made perfect sense.”

The project arrives on the heels of earlier singles ‘West Coast Funeral,’ ‘Cow Killers,’ ‘Play Dead,’ and ‘Head In The Dirt,’ each track extending Casey’s idiosyncratic approach—music that follows his own compass rather than any prescribed lane. Where most rappers draw comparisons to peers in their orbit, Casey finds his name curiously invoked alongside Rivers Cuomo, Beck, and even Sublime’s Bradley Nowell. It’s an odd but telling triangulation: tuneful, off-kilter, and slyly melancholic, all refracted through his own Southern vantage point.

‘Buried Out Back’ reads less like a safe bet and more like an unspooled diary of instincts. In a year where the line between alternative and hip-hop continues to dissolve, Chris Casey has been steadily etching his own variation on the rock-rap hybrid, one that feels neither nostalgic nor forced. The momentum, much like his closing track promises, is only up from here.

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