Herdd, aka Frankie Cote, has recently shared his debut album Afterlife. Two singles from the album that are out right now are “Afterlife” and “Paranoia”. Built around Electro-Pop, Afterlife documents Herdd’s “struggles and successes in overcoming various mental health crises.”

With the help of Chris Anderson (The Backstreet Boys, Nick Lachey, Justin Bieber), the new album was produced by Herdd between late 2022 to late 2023, and mastered by Anderson towards the back end of 2023. Herdd’s goal with the album is to guide “the listener towards self-acceptance and freedom.”

The album takes on three main themes. The first half of the album expresses Cote’s struggles with addiction, anxiety, and depression, and the steps taken to recover. As the album progresses, we see him learn to “build healthier boundaries by ditching problematic relationships.” As we approach the album’s back end, Herdd “embraces the past with an open mind, allowing himself to heal and let go.”

 Frankie Cote speaks about the inspiration behind the album:

The album’s title, ‘Afterlife’, speaks to the main themes of the project; facing ourselves with honesty, self-discovery, facing fear and rebirth as the person we were always meant to be (the one you were at the start). An ‘Afterlife’ in this case is the life where you have shed the skin of who you learned to be, and you return to being the person you were at the start.