Making a strong impression with its melodic production and heart-on-sleeve sentiments, “So Sick” is an immersive new track from Philadelphia-based band Caring Less, who meld their ’90s alternative influences within expressions of pain and desire. The track consumes in its thematic emotion, capturing a passionate though potentially harmful level of adoration. Lyrics eventually refer to a sense of emotional sickness, pondering how “you’re either the cure or the cause of it,” into shimmering guitar fragments as the finale arrives in satiating form.
Warming guitar pulses and a steady percussive pulse pair with a melodic vocal declaration — “tell me you’ll never hurt me,” — amidst a palpable sense of being smitten. “Whenever you’re around, all I can think about is getting you to kiss me,” Johnson’s vocals grip, asking “would you turn me away if I told you I need you?” as a stirring chorus takes hold thereafter. More textured guitar twangs and an ascending vocal emotion follow, reminding fondly of Mitski’s tendency to evolve from vocal introspection and momentum into replay-inducing hooks. Added vocal harmonies arrive in the ensuing sequences, bolstering the already-enveloping production. “So Sick” is a standout success from Caring Less.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
We discovered this release via MusoSoup.
