On July 24, 2025, Vinn Lombardo released his third single, "Sedatives & Alcohol" an anthemic folk/acoustic number that slides into your marrow like an arsonist's confession. Stripped bare but emotionally complete, the song wafts by with simplicity, the sort that speaks louder than even the grandest production.
Framed around the fragile wings of folk, Vinn Lombardo offers his most intimate work to date. With nothing more than warm acoustic strums and a voice soaked in quiet openness, "Sedatives & Alcohol" reads like a late-night journal entry, honest, heavy, and weirdly comforting. It's a slow-moving track, not lazy but measured. Every pause, it seems, is a held breath, every lyric a dropped weight. There's a tranquillity to it that feels counter to the content, sedation, self-medication, and the blurred line between numbing pain and running after peace. It's a delicate unspooling of the self, delivered in the type of delicate artistry that doesn't ask for attention but earns it. Vinn Lombardo has staked a naturalistic claim in the world of indie folk, and "Sedatives & Alcohol" sounds like a statement of that identity. He's not in a hurry to fill the room, he's letting the silence do half the talking. It's evidence of an artist unafraid to live in the discomfort, to document the untold truths of the human experience.
For admirers of artists such as Elliott Smith, Iron & Wine, or early Bon Iver, "Sedatives & Alcohol" presents that same weightlessness, that kind of beautiful ache. It's a song for late-night thinkers and heart decoders and anyone who's ever tried to sleep through a storm in their mind.