When I first queued up Leah Sophia and her bold new track “Cocain”, I half-expected a gritty, urban cautionary tale or perhaps a frantic club anthem. Instead, the room filled with something that felt like humid air and silk sheets. It’s a brilliant bit of misdirection. While the title suggests something illicit and jagged, the sonic reality is pure, unadulterated oxytocin.
The track operates in a lush intersection of Afro-beat and Afro-Soul that feels incredibly grounded for a song about floating. There is a bassline here deep, resonant, and percussive that creates this rolling rhythmic bounce. It hits you in the chest, not like a punch, but like a heavy heartbeat when you’re standing too close to someone you adore. Beneath those warm, atmospheric synthesizer chords, the crisp shakers keep time for a trance state that feels dangerously comfortable.
Sophia’s vocals are the anchor. Drawing from her Trinidadian roots and her time in the London scene, she delivers a performance that is smooth and startlingly effortless. She isn’t shouting about this overwhelming, euphoric romance; she is exhaling it. She sings about escaping reality and spiritual alignment, and you believe her because the music itself feels weightless. It captures that specific vertigo of new love the dizzying happiness where the ground disappears, yet you feel entirely safe.
It’s dreamy, hypnotic, and undeniably sensual. It makes you wonder: if love can mimic a chemical high this perfectly, why do we ever bother with reality?
