Alder Cote is a 20-year-old artist born in Riverside, California, who grew up between Southern California and Valencia, Spain.
Loving someone more than they'll ever love you back, Alder Cote captures that ache perfectly on "Can't You Just Hold Me?", already going viral on TikTok ahead of its June 3 release.
Built from vivid, confessional songwriting, green lights that don't move, boats on the ceiling, folding laundry alone, the track opens as an intimate bedroom ballad before expanding into something far larger than its walls. Ethereal acoustics, otherworldly layering, and a devastating string swell carry the desperate question at its heart: do you care?
Produced by Michl & Ben Kessler. Previously featured on Spotify's Fresh Finds and Fresh Finds Pop.