Sober by Drew Friel

Wobbly synths, soaring backing vocals, and crunchy drums, all overlaid with a lead vocal that sounds like a Mancunian David Berman. An open-hearted song, Sober bubbles with tension throughout, with themes of life cycles and a Sisyphean sense of returning back to where you started—older, weathered, and wiser. If ‘everyone’s tried to leave already,’ then maybe it’s time to give staying a go. Produced at Whitewood Studios, Liverpool, Sober is FFO: Alex G, Bill Callahan, Grandaddy, Father John Misty.