COMMOTION's newest drop, "stargazing," comes streaking across like a discreet little meteor, bright, genuine, and inescapable. "stargazing" meets you wherever you happen to be and also offers something all too rare in music right now: untroubled understanding. There is no skirting the pain here, just a gentle suggestion of sitting with it, breathing through it, and perhaps starting to let it go. "stargazing" is a poignant reminder that healing doesn't always arrive in grand, sweeping gestures; sometimes, it bubbles up in the silence between notes.
Written for anyone who has ever lost someone they love, "Stargazing" is nothing if not the language of grief, but it also lives in grief. The production is minimal in all the right ways; there's room for the message to breathe. It mingles M.O.R. alt guitars with hip-hop edges, not in an overproduced way, but with a kind of subtlety that seems to have been a real choice, like a private conversation set to music.
COMMOTION's gritty, raw vocals coast over the track with a relaxed confidence, calling out to you with both a comfortable feel and a sense of purpose. There's a silent ache in his performance, the sort that doesn't need pageantry to be potent. Lines hit like memories, and there's a universal hum of "I've been there too" running through every lyric.
What makes "stargazing" so compelling isn't just the sound but the feel. It's the after-funeral solo drive in the middle of the night. That's the lump in your chest when you hear a song they loved, but that silent wish you make to the stars, in case they're listening. COMMOTION somehow processes all of that and packages it into a track that sounds like a tribute and a release. COMMOTION might be staring at the stars, but they've grabbed hold of something here that is grounded and real.
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