“Colder to the Touch” finds Ryder Havdale charting complex emotional territory in song that swims in ghostly urgency with faint tonal resonances with U2’s “New Year’s Day” but clearly more stylistically in tune with early darkwave. What makes the song stand out aside from its layered atmospherics and expert arrangement thereof is the vocal duet between Havdale and Teagan Johnston. It gives more weight behind words that seem to be about the phenomenon of people waiting around for someone to love them who probably never will but because of the feeling of attachment to that person. What makes that even more complicated is those linger attachments after you get your heart broken by someone who shouldn’t hold real estate in your psyche yet those habits of feeling linger. And it’s easy to forget that you can move on. The chorus of “You can love somebody else/you can love somebody now/why wait for love to call” is a reminder that even “after every heartbreak you’re colder to the touch” that you don’t have to get stuck and that doing so is perhaps understandable but it’s also a choice and you can choose to open yourself up to new experiences and relationships and doing so doesn’t mean you’re betraying your own emotions or disregarding or dishonoring what you had or thought you had, you’re choosing to live and not be entrapped by a way of being that isn’t enriching your life. Listen to “Colder to the Touch” on Spotify and follow Ryder Havdale at the links below.
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