Hysteria: “Angela Is the Girl Who Let You Destroy You”
With jagged guitars and massive choruses, Los Angeles band Hysteria channel early-2000s pop rock on their emotional new single, “Angela.”
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MADDI DUARTE
2/9/20261 min read
Los Angeles band Hysteria, the project led by bandleader Dakota Cosgrove, are back with a cathartic gut-punch of a new single. Titled “Angela,” the track is out everywhere now, and it wastes no time digging its teeth in.
Built on a demanding melody that slices through guitars that both shimmer and scrape, “Angela” teeters constantly on the edge of collapse. Just when things feel ready to cave in, the song explodes into massive, emotionally charged choruses that feel deeply human.
Hysteria continue to sharpen their sound here, embracing their love for early-2000s pop rock while twisting it into something rawer and more present. Dakota explains it better: “Every moment is both an ascension and a decline, leaving you face down on the ground,” she says. “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.”
With “Angela,” Hysteria capture that dizzying mix of nostalgia, regret, and self-destruction that feels loud, vulnerable, addictive.
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