Harrison Rimmer is following up the release of his last single ‘Tough Love’ with new single ‘Cold’. The single is taken from his upcoming sophomore album ‘Cheaper Than Therapy’. This song is raw, angsty, and has teeth. Musically it draws inspiration from the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Frank Turner and City & Colour, a musical pallet many Harrison Rimmer fans have grown to know as his bread and butter, but the difference this time around is in the lyrics, it’s a style some Harrison Rimmer fans haven’t heard for a while.
Harrison’s mission with ‘Cheaper Than Therapy’ has been to have the music be fun and energetic, to be the listener’s escape, but the lyrics to be the crack in the door with them being raw and honest. ‘Cold’ displays this perfectly. Harrison says, “If ‘Tough Love’ was the rallying cry, ‘Cold’ is what happens when you’re in the thick of doing the work. I used to call this my Frankenstein’s Monster. Some of the lyrics were written after my first panic attack and some were written later during a time in my life when I despised myself and the man I was becoming. So I pulled the mirror up and began to start putting the work in. I started to plot and move on with my life and to be more true and authentic to who I am, no matter how uncomfortable it made me. I feel like I’ve captured that moment in ‘Cold’.”
Musically it’s fun and punchy, hell you can sing and dance to it if you wanted, but lyrically, lyrically is where Harrison really wanted to get listeners. “Did those words make me uncomfortable? Absolutely, but in writing them I set myself free. I got stuck into conversations with my friends, family and started therapy, and even exercising regularly. Those factors became driving forces for not only this song and album, but for myself going forwards.”
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