Press Kit · Estuary Sessions · 2026
Getting By
Hunter Cahill
Getting By is a song about drinking: the routine, the refusal to reflect, and the daily negotiations of someone who can’t stop and has quit trying to. “Some call it a problem. I call it getting by.” Lead single from the Estuary Sessions, recorded with engineer Matt Gerhard at Estuary Recording in Austin. Out July 17, 2026.
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Press
Sometimes overwhelming, often heartbreaking, always compelling.
Indie Obsessive · Feb 2022
Fans of Manchester Orchestra and REM, rejoice. This is stunning stuff.
Soundsphere Magazine · Aug 2021
Everyone will find themselves in the song.
We Love That Sound · Oct 2021
Off-the-cuff, heart-on-your-sleeve.
Unxigned · 2021
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Lyrics
Coffee in the morning
Get right before I drive
Some call it medicating
I call it getting by
Hold it all together
Till there’s no one in sight
Some call it keeping busy
I call it getting by
There’s a mirror in the hallway
I don’t look at anymore
Somebody else living
A life I can’t afford
Somebody else living
A life I can’t afford
Ask you how you’re doing
Don’t hear your reply
Some call it being friendly
I call it getting by
I can’t keep from drinking
No matter what I try
Some call it a problem
I call it getting by
About
Hunter Cahill is an Austin, Texas singer-songwriter. His debut collection Some Things You Don’t Know About Me arrived between 2021 and 2022: six self-recorded singles, confessional music that kept its distance. The press noticed. Austin Town Hall drew comparisons to David Bazan; Soundsphere called it “stunning.” He released all of it wearing a wolf mask.
The Estuary Sessions, recorded with engineer Matt Gerhard, go further back than the coping does: to a religious upbringing where love and fear were the same, and to what that does to a person.
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