New York-based artist Cold Brew released his latest album Hangover last Friday. A culmination of thoughts surrounding the world around him, past relationships, and life itself; this sprawling album is guaranteed to have a song that personally speaks to you. I was blown away when I first listened to Hangover. The variety of genres including Dark Pop, Rock, and hints of Latin influence really help to emphasize the lost feeling Cold Brew sings about in his tracks.

What caught my ear the first second I listened to it was “Feels So Good To Die”. The song leads with an acoustic-sounding electric guitar and follows with a more muffled electric sound. These instruments are then met with a trap track. It isn’t until that trap sound and electric guitar mixed with Cold Brew’s lyricism drowning the acoustic track as the song progresses do you realize this song details a betrayal.

“Well now you’re feeling like I always have / A beautiful knife in your back”

“Ice” has a completely different feel to the rest of the album. This acoustic track centers around a particular relationship. He is “searching for a way to break the ice / that’s been slowly creeping up against my life.” Feeling like he’s constantly messing things up, Cold Brew tries to confide in a particular person but is finding it hard to do so. The people in his life constantly leave. But it’s this person he wants to keep in his life so he’s no longer alone.

It’s really the Dark Pop and Grunge elements in Cold Brew’s work that help to solidify the loneliness he discusses in his lyrics. He has taken this genre and really made it his own. While the lyrics do center around this feeling, it also helps you feel a little less alone. It’s comforting to let these emotions out, but it also helps to know that others are going through the same thing. It is best to go into this album when you’re in a good headspace – you’ll feel like a different person afterward.