Cozy takes listeners into the emotional world with new single “Glory”

On “Glory,” Cozy offers a mission report from the edges of the human experience. Famed for intertwining autobiographical stories with her sound, Cozy embraces the role of musical astrologer, using “Glory” as a spacecraft to take us on a ride through unknown galaxies of truth, both human weakness and strength. “Glory” has something expansive and cinematic at work, as if Cozy is broadcasting from the edge of some emotional universe. It is an voice, simultaneously plain and otherworldly, by which guides us through this song as a fellow-traveler who has ventured to the stars and returned, bearing a bucket of shards that could be called life and spreading them at our feet.

And what makes “Glory” stand out is Cozy’s gift for taking the personal and creating something adaptable. You hear the ache of struggle, the breathlessness of hope, the quiet fire of perseverance all woven through his words. Each lyric stings as if it had been plucked from the pages of a life as if to offer the listener a chance to see themselves reflected in the stars he sings of. “Glory” swims through pop, soul, electronic ticks, and pops surfaces without making the sound rest in any box. It reflects the message that life isn’t linear, and neither is the music that attempts to tell its story. The song escalates with a slow-burn intensity, expanding like a rocket about to launch and settling into moments of reflection that play like being adrift in weightless space.

This song has a raw, honest boldness, not in volume. Cozy resurrects the raw truth, the kind you only realize when you’ve left all that innocent shit and turned around to look at it. “Glory” is the sound of someone who has looked into the darker corners of their humanity and has come back to report what they’ve found. Cozy wants you to climb in, float through the unknown with him, and come back changed. And if Glory is any indication of what’s next, his journey is one we’ll all want to be a part of.