London-based artist Nico Cann continues to prove that he has something honest to say. His new single, Lose My Mind, feels like an open window into nostalgia, that strange mix of sweetness and regret that lingers when you think about what could’ve been. Produced by Thomas Mitchener, the song leans on a glowing Roland Jazz Chorus riff and builds into a final guitar solo that seems to breathe, courtesy of his friend Nicholas Richards.
“At its heart, the song reflects on the memory of a childhood love—a time of innocence, instinct, and unfiltered emotion before the weight of adult life set in,” Nico says. “It’s about longing for a past that never truly existed — a time that never was.” You can hear that longing in his voice, cracked around the edges but full of warmth, like a conversation with an old friend after midnight.
Written in Milan, Lose My Mind borrows a touch of melancholy from The Catcher in the Rye and nods to Henley and Hornsby’s The End of Innocence, one of Nico’s lifelong favorites. Still, it’s entirely his own—somewhere between Springsteen’s grit, Jack Antonoff’s vulnerability, and Sam Fender’s small-town ache. “The song is inspired by the spirit of freedom and inventiveness that defined the 1980s,” he adds. “I felt that those values—hope, creativity, and a sense of possibility—are increasingly being lost today, and I wanted to capture and celebrate them through music.”
From his first track, Runnin’ in the Rain, recorded at Abbey Road Studios, to Light Over the Ridge and beyond, Nico Cann has continued to chase meaning through melody. With Lose My Mind, he doesn’t just revisit the past; he turns it into something beautifully alive.
