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Nocona’s new single, “Into the Stars,” plunges into the uneasy space between wakefulness and sleep. Songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist Chris Isom channels his affinity for adventurous melodies and unexpected harmonic turns through the band’s restless punk edge, creating a track that feels both hypnotic and immediate.

At its core, the song captures the struggle to quiet the mind through an endless cycle of remembering, forgetting, and surrendering to sleep. Lyrics like the recurring refrain, “remember how to forget, going down slow remembering,” distill its central tension: the impossible act of trying to quiet the mind by wrestling with memory itself. Moving through themes of alienation, uncertainty, and reflection, “Into the Stars” blurs the line between truth and projection as questions of existence and reality begin to unravel. Elsewhere, lines like “your terminal reused glares, the things that you hear nowhere” and “it’s so incessant the way you find guides in your right to exist” ground the song in the silent emotional exchanges, private narratives, and search for meaning that shape our relationships with others, tracing the fragile boundary between inner chaos and clarity.