No Love For The Middle Child – “Broken Wings” song review: soft start, sharp turn

“Broken Wings” is the first taste of No Love For The Middle Child’s next project: a gentle guitar intro, a sing-song cadence, then a burst of pace and bite. Out 19 Sep 2025, as a one-track single and on YouTube under Cantora Records with a fresh visualiser.

He weaponises contrast. “Broken Wings” starts like a secret and then bolts; the nursery-rhyme lilt shouldn’t work, but the acceleration earns it.

“There’s rust in my halo” is the line the keeper, and at 2:33, he’s smart enough to leave before the shine wears off.

It’s compact, hooky, and more thoughtful than it first appears, polish you’d expect from someone fresh off MGK’s Lost Americana and Tom Morello’s “One Last Dance.”

The song opens like a private thought; light strums, a high lead line, and then shifts.

The verse slips into a nursery-rhyme cadence that makes the confession feel disarmingly simple before the delivery tightens and the tempo kicks.

That left-turn sound mirrors the theme: wanting more even when you already have plenty.

Recent Instagram post from No Love colours it, too: after a six-month quiet spell, he called this run “a fresh start,” remembering “living in my mom’s attic” and being “the kid who’d stay up all night writing songs with the fan blowing loud.”

That origin story, music as escape, then recommitment, fits the way “Broken Wings” moves from hush to sprint.

No Love spells it out in his own framing: picture an angel on a park bench in heaven, smoking, bored. “If heaven is real life,” he asks, “why doesn’t it feel like enough?”

As a first signal from the next project, it works. The track sits in his lane, pop, punk/rock edges, electronic polish, and it’s easy to hear the hand of a writer-producer who’s been living in bigger rooms.