COIN Album Review

Their latest album cover.
Credit: COIN

Their latest album cover. Credit: COIN

Austin Desroche, Staff Writer

So far, 2017 has been the year of big rap and pop albums being released. With everyone from Kendrick Lamar to Drake to Kehlani putting out new albums. On the other side of the music scene, the up and coming alternative band COIN released their second studio album on April 20. COIN released five singles leading up to the release of HOW WILL YOU IF YOU NEVER TRY, including “Don’t Cry 2020″,”Talk Too Much”, “I Don’t Wanna Dance”, “Feeling”, and “Malibu 1992”.

The album features eleven songs, six new songs alongside the five prereleased singles from earlier this year. The album kicks off with “Don’t Cry 2020”, a song that talks about the struggles and fears that people face with growing up and facing the real world. The years go by whether you want them to or not, and it also addresses how nobody wants to get older but it is inevitable. The song finishes with the chorus assuring you that everything will be okay.

Continuing through the rest of the album, you find songs about love and life. From songs such as Boyfriend and Hannah that lean more toward the upbeat side of breakup songs, to the songs like “Talk Too Much” and Feeling that speak more about the happier side of young love. The final song on the album is “Malibu 1992”, which reminisces of the memories from an easier time of life. One of the slowest songs on the album, it talks about the lost love and the feeling of not being over someone you once loved, saying, “Oh I did it again, I did it again. Oh I must still want you.”