Christian Cohle Drops Music Video for Raw, New-Wave Confession ‘Oh It Must Be Nice’

Dublin-based avant-pop artist Christian Cohle returns with his striking new single and music video, 'Oh It Must Be Nice,' marking a bold leap into new-wave and alternative territory. 

Known for his cinematic production and confessional lyricism, Cohle strips back the artifice on this release, trading lush atmospherics for a raw, band-driven sound that fuses melancholy with movement.

Drawing influence from David Bowie, Roxy Music, and Future Islands, 'Oh It Must Be Nice' pulses with 80s basslines and warm acoustic piano chords, grounding Cohle’s lower, more conversational vocal tone. His delivery feels both vulnerable and assured, weaving bittersweet reflections on love, loneliness, and desire into a song that’s as emotionally charged as it is danceable.

The single arrives alongside a cinematic music video that mirrors its moody, retro aesthetic. Cohle is filmed sitting at a table in a sharp grey suit, contemplatively singing to the camera as he smokes cigarettes, a glass mug of liquor resting beside an ashtray. Bathed in a cool blue glow with a red light casting across his face, the visuals evoke an unmistakably 80s noir atmosphere - intimate, stylish, and perfectly attuned to the song’s sense of yearning.

“I wrote this just before leaving for India last year, at a point where I felt burnt out and disillusioned with music,” Cohle shares. “It’s about coming clean - to myself and to my audience. About the loneliness, the hypersexuality, the cycles of intimacy that left me emptier each time. It wasn’t easy to share, but it felt necessary.”

Following his acclaimed 2023 album 'WETLANDS,' Cohle enters a bold new chapter with 'Oh It Must Be Nice': a track that bridges the cinematic and the personal, transforming confession into catharsis.

'Oh It Must Be Nice' is out now.

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