Adam Lambert surprised fans late Thursday by dropping “Feel Something,” his first new single in nearly two years.

The song, which Lambert co-wrote with Benedict Cork and Josh Cumbee, sees him returning to his roots as a brooding balladeer.

“I’ve been leaving my heart in all the wrong places, took it back way too soon when I should’ve been patient,” Lambert sings (listen above). “I don’t need to feel love, I just want to feel something.”

The track is expected to appear on his fourth studio album later this year.

In a lengthy note posed to his Twitter and Instagram accounts Thursday, the singer opened up about his mental health and suggested that “Feel Something” had been inspired by recent experiences with depression.

“I’m coming out of a dark period of second-guessing my own artistry and having my mental health suffer because of it,” he wrote. “I started asking myself, ‘Is all this hustle really worth it?’ I put all my focus on my work and started to feel detached in my personal life. My self-worth was suffering. I was lonely and becoming depressed.”