You Haven’t Known Pain Until You Hear Cargo G’s “Chrome Heart”

It takes a lot of talent and experience to make music that is not excessively dramatic yet breaks your heart open to let it bleed quietly. Cargo G does it so well with her latest single Chrome Heart.

Cargo G is a Texas-born lyricist known for her distinct sound that sits between captivating melodies and genuine songwriting. After her debut EP Pressure, she’s back to deliver an emotional gut-punch made for the unspeakable emotions.

Chrome Heart doesn’t need a lengthy intro to open the track. It only needs a gloomy piano motif and Cargo G‘s trembling voice to reach the depth of your emotions. And it’s not the I-cried-so-much-until-my-eyes-are-burning type of grief, but the kind that leaves you staring blankly at the wall until you couldn’t function for the whole day.

Its quiet, melancholic arrangement feels like when NIKI and Gracie Abrams got locked in a room with nothing but a piano, then decided to sing the biggest heartbreak of their lives in its most fragile form. Cargo G‘s lyricism is at its peak in this track, and it’s the rawest layers of sound that makes her bare emotions unguarded at the core.

One thing about Chrome Heart is the way it refuses to romanticize pain. Instead she dissects it quietly. There’s something about how she unpacks the exact feeling of undoing the remnants after everyone else is gone. And despite her limited discography as of the moment, this release is very telling that she’s already at par with some of the rising artists among her generation.