Tom Odell is again, and he’s hitting a nerve as soon as once more. The British singer-songwriter has simply launched his newest single, “Don’t Let Me Go,” a uncooked and weak observe that captures the heavy feelings of being caught in an unraveling relationship. Launched this Friday alongside a stirring new music video, the observe captures the uncooked desperation of clinging to one thing that’s already slipping away — a relationship fraying on the seams, weighed down by helplessness and the quiet sense that the tip is inevitable.
“The sense, nearly each week, that the world is ending in some capability — which it’s, for some individuals,” Odell says of the emotional undercurrent fueling the tune. That feeling of looming disaster — each private and world — is throughout “Don’t Let Me Go,” from its trembling piano traces to Odell’s cracked, pleading vocals. It’s a heavy hear, however by no means a hole one; Odell has a method of constructing even the darkest feelings really feel cathartic.
Tom Odell is at the moment touring Europe as an opener for Billie Eilish’s sold-out Hit Me Onerous and Comfortable enviornment tour, and bringing this new chapter of his music to a few of the largest phases of his profession thus far. Later this summer time, he’ll be part of The Lumineers throughout U.S. arenas on their Automated World Tour earlier than heading right into a full worldwide tour within the fall — momentum that exhibits no indicators of slowing, much more than a decade into his profession.
If something, Odell’s reference to listeners has solely grown extra visceral. His final album, Black Friday, made a world splash, debuting at quantity 5 on Spotify’s Prime Album Debut Chart, whereas its haunting title observe crossed 700 million streams. In the meantime, his breakout hit “One other Love” — first launched in 2012 — discovered a brand new life on TikTok as an anthem of resilience and solidarity, with billions of performs fueling a resurgence few might have predicted.
However Tom Odell has by no means actually performed by pop’s guidelines. As he’s stated earlier than, mainstream success was by no means the objective; it’s the non-public connection, the quiet reduction of shared vulnerability and never conformity, that he’s all the time chased. Weak, aching, and soulfully trustworthy, he’s carving it even deeper with “Don’t Let Me Go,” providing up one other aching, fantastically human piece of himself to the world.
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