The LA-based quartet Hysteria lives between soft vulnerability and explosive catharsis. With a name referencing women historically being punished for feeling too much, they blend all corners of emo, incorporating both the heavy and the light. Hysteria recognizes the necessity of emotion and turns it to resistance and power. Their influences include Texas Is The Reason, Sunny Day Real Estate, and more, blending a Y2k aura with a modern edge.
Last year, the group made their debut with “Reason To Pray.” The single introduced fans to their urgent sound and confessional lyricism. Now, Hysteria has unleashed their newest single, “Angela.”
Produced by Photographic Memory (Wisp, Jane Remover), “Angela” lives as an emotionally compelling piece. Twinkly guitars frame the song while Dakota Cosgrove’s vocals slice through the center, building to a bursting chorus. The track is composed of tender honesty and raw energy, filling space with haunting ups and downs.
“Every moment is both an ascension and a decline, leaving you face down on the ground,” Cosgrove explains. “Angela is the year of your life you want to erase, a desperate cry to be loved, that sick desire to be broken and put back together. Angela is the girl who you let destroy you.”
