The trio delves even further into their raw emotional edge and sharp songwriting on the song, crafting a painfully resonant internal mirror of toxic relationships and the web of memory, loneliness, and longing. “Somebody to Love” is a mirror to those musings we’d rather not confront and the desperate quest for comfort, even if we’re reaching for something that once broke us.
The track offers a frank exploration of the comfort of dysfunction versus the discomfort of loneliness. Brother Vice sets the emotional tone the moment it kicks off with a mood that is equal parts yearning and disillusionment. The vocals are honest and pained, but never over the top, and the instrumentation swells and pulls back in all the right places, reflecting the emotional rollercoaster of reflecting on a relationship that hurt more than it helped. The power of “Somebody to Love” hits so hard because of how universal it is. Brother Vice captures a moment when aloneness becomes so suffocating that the memory of something broken starts to seem preferable.
It’s a brutal honesty that most artists tiptoe around, but not here. The trio keeps things polished but personal. It’s smooth and moody, with just enough grit to allow the emotion to breathe. “Somebody to Love” is a reminder that healing often starts with being honest with ourselves. Here, Brother Vice doesn’t present us with tidy, laugh-out-loud emotional resolutions. Instead, they afford us something more powerful.