Cold For June isn’t holding back on their new single, “Broken,” a scorching post-hardcore confessional packed with soaring emotion and energy. Out now on all platforms, the track marks new territory for the band, leaving the kind of honesty that doesn’t just slap, it sticks.
Right from the get-go, you’re pulled into a swirling world of heavy riffs and otherworldly textures. It’s the type of suspense that sounds as if it’s about to burst at the seams, but that’s the point. “Broken” doesn’t try to be all right. It thrives inside the pain, the unraveling, and the realization that sometimes the unraveling is the only way to put things back together. There’s an earthy purity that emerges above the distortion, powerful, but controlled, emotional, but not self-indulgent. Fans of Bilmuri, Dayseeker, and Sleep Token will find an immediate and welcome home here, but Cold For June isn’t just repeating influences. This band is carving a path straight through the genre’s emotional heart. “Broken” explores inner struggles, identity, and emotional burnout. Every line weighs it here, but there is a strangeness of comfort, too, the feeling of hearing your feelings shouted back at you in a language only ache can speak.
The production walks a fine line between grit and the result is a song on which its layers, musical and emotional, are allowed to breathe. The guitars swell and crash purposefully, the drums hold the chaos in place, and atmospheric details lend the song an excellent quality. In a music world filled with superficial angst, Cold For June does offer something more sincere. “Broken” isn’t just a good-sounding hook, it feels necessary. This is a song for anyone who’s been cracked open by life and has managed to face the pieces.