The second single from Brooklyn-based rockers The Madelines, “Take Your Medicine” is described as “about how the complexity of past relationships can influence the present, and the toll it can take on a blossoming relationship.” Panting percussion and steady vocal charisma build with a climactic vigor, with the lyrics referring to a complex sense of jealousy, arising when someone you’re in love with is still clinging onto a past relationship. The elongated vocal evolves into a ferocious emotiveness in the central hook, inducing replays with its cohesive build and satiating rock sound.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
