The leaves have turned, the sky is gray, and the air is cold. Autumn has finally settled in, and if, like me, you’re someone who may or may not be going through a recent breakup AND a little bout with seasonal depression, Bone Police’s new single, “Pizza Night at Party Palace,” might add a little warmth to the chill that’s quickly setting in.

The track opens with synthesizers and guitars reverberating heavily, as if the malaise you’re feeling has infected the instrumentation of the song as well. This dream-like depressive state is accompanied by powerful drums and bass, keeping us tied to a melody, an invitation for us to sway to something.

Then, Jacob Bruggman’s haunting vocals emerge to introduce us to one of the darker hooks I’ve ever heard: “bring color to the vast unending gray.”

This track allows itself to ask the all-enduring question: what are we really here for? The lyrics reveal the reason we really do anything in life — trying to make some meaning out of the seeming meaningless of the world around us. It’s an achievement that the track manages to stay poppy and dance-y alongside the feedback and reverb. Like the lyrics, this contrast signals a place between two feelings: the place between sad introspection and carefree abandon.

“Life anticipated / in the right light / what felt like more / time lost.”

We all know those feelings after a relationship crumbles before our eyes. The anger at the wasted time, the wasted effort. That you could give someone your heart, and for it be all for naught (or at least, that’s how we feel in the moment).

“Little agitated / but in the right light / I loved it all”

But with that anger comes a wistfulness, the memory of what once was. The beauty of something that doesn’t last. That feeling that you’d do it all over again if you were given the chance. But we don’t want to wallow in that! We wanna go out! Try to get our mind off things! Distract ourselves! Hey, I hear they’re having pizza night at party palace tonight! That might do the trick.

This is when the track transcends, becoming more than an exploration of depression and turning into something that, if you let it, could actually be a remedy for it. What sounds like xylophones enter the instrumentation, adding a bit of whimsy to the darkness. A sense of wondrous abandon sets into the track. Ghostly background vocals act as a sort of greek chorus: “set it off” over and over, a rallying cry to give in to the moment.

As we lead into the bridge with a raw, growling, feedback-heavy guitar melody, Bruggman bares the track’s soul to us: “breakdown when things really matter / then dig through to each other’s sadness / try to grow from the pain.”

Maybe the only way to get through the pain is to actually go through it, to carry it with you. Just like how “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” can be just what you need to see after a breakup, this song just might be the perfect palette cleanser after the bad taste of one. No matter the hedonism you indulge in — no matter the vices you have — they’re not going to save you from that pain. You have to let yourself feel it.

Or, if this track doesn’t solve all your problems, at least it’ll still “add some color to the vast, unending gray.”