Listen: My Heart Won’t Break Again – Nicolás

Following in from the haunting Everytime I Go To Bed, musician Nicolás is back with another piece of introspective dubstep, and D&B influenced breaks.

My Heart Won’t Break Again moves with a similar sense of pace, skippy drums rolling around the inside of my mind as looped vocals dissolve into their own form of instrumentation. Ambient synths wash over, as a taut melodic refrain is stretched around the song like a wrapper.

As with his previous music, Nicolás art feels determined to encourage self-reflection and emotional vulnerability. My Heart Won’t Break Again’s repeated refrain of the song’s title doesn’t have the determined resolve the words might imply. Instead, it feels more nebulous. Maybe the point is that something is either broken or unbroken — it can’t break and then break again, and something that heals is never fully broken.

Listen: Everytime I Go To Bed — Nicolás

Nicolás is a music producer whose work tracks a vein of nostalgic melancholy. Describing his experience of the world, he notes the apparent tension between the fact that his may be part of Gen Z, but Nicolas has an affection for the world his parents grew-up in. For all the utility modern technology provides us, it can leave us forgetting the things that aren’t instantly accessible. We can immerse ourselves in the digitised experiences we recorded, but none of it conveys the emotions or sensations we had at the time.

Single Everytime I Go To Bed is an exploration of those overwhelming emotions — the feeling of being consumed by a desire or passion for something or someone. A yearning vocal depicts a sense of isolation as it slides across clattering jungle-styled drum and bass. The overall experience is beautiful, and yet haunting at the same time.

That sense of loneliness and isolation comes from the experience of being trapped inside yourself, and your emotion, as Nicolás describes:

“We all had a moment in our lives where passion was too strong, you want to get out, but you just can’t, your head is becoming a big loop where you feel lost and stuck.”

Listen to Everytime I Go To Bed below.