Leather Coat

The Take

Track seven of *Love Sick*, 'Leather Coat' is the album's most outside-the-rap-production-architect moment: Rodaidh McDonald — the British producer whose discography includes The xx, Sampha, and King Krule — co-produces with Nez and Los Hendrix. The McDonald presence is the structural fingerprint that signals the album's expanded sonic palette: this is *Love Sick* leaning into the indie-R&B textures that made it the most sung-through album of Don's career. The lyric paraphrase: the title's leather coat functions as both literal cold-weather garment and metaphor — a fashion image that doubles as emotional armor inside a song about putting on a face for a partner who keeps reading through it. Production-wise, the track sits warmer and more analog than the album's flex-pole moments, with a softer drum programming and a vocal mix that lets Don's voice stretch into headphone-listening territory. Inside the album's sequence, 'Leather Coat' lands between 'Time Heals All' and the Kaytranada-produced 'Honeymoon,' and reads as the project's deliberate transition from interior balladry into the album's brighter midfield.