Caroline Polachek shares track written for Kurt Cobain opera

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Caroline Polachek has returned with “Sunset,” her second song of 2022. The track was produced by Sega Bodega: the producer for Shygirl, Eartheater, and more who released his fourth album, Romeo, last year.

the production, called Last Days, was not “authorised” and is “an attempt that seeks to profit” on the harrowing end to Cobain’s life. The highly-rated production of the 2005 Gus Van Sant film of the same name tells of the lead singer’s final hours alone before he took his own life aged 27 in 1994. A representative for Kurt Cobain’s estate told MailOnline: “This show has been created and written without the permission or input of the Cobain estate.

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