Tom Odyell Is back, and he hits a nerve again. The British singer writer has just released his last single, “Don’t let me go,” A raw and vulnerable track that captures the heavy feelings of getting stuck in an unpleasant relationship. Released this Friday alongside a moving new music video, the track captures the raw desperation of clinging to something that already slides away – a relationship that is shipping in the seams, which is burdened by helplessness and the silent feeling that the end is inevitable.
“The feeling, almost every week, that the world ends in any capacity – which it is for some people,” says Odell about the emotional undercurrent that drives the song. The feeling of threatening disaster – both personal and global – is everywhere “don’t let me go”, from its shaking piano lines to Odell’s cracked, appealing song. It is a heavy listening, but never a hollow; Odell has a way to make even the darkest emotions feel cathartic.
Tom Odell is currently touring Europe as more open to Billie Eilish’s sold out Hit me hard and softly Arena Tour and brought this new chapter in its music to some of the biggest stages of its career to date. Later this summer he will join Lumineers over us arenas on their Automatic world tour Before entering a complete international tour during the fall – Momentum that shows no signs of slower, even more than a decade into his career.
If anything, Odell’s connection to listeners has only become more visceral. His last album, Black FridayMade a global splash and debuted at number five on Spotify’s best album debut chart, while its haunting title track crossed 700 million currents. At the same time, his breakout found “another love” – which was first released in 2012 – a new life on Tiktok as a hymn of resilience and solidarity, with billions of plays that drive a resuscitation that few could have predicted.
But Tom Odell has never really played according to POP’s rules. As he has said before, the mainstream success was never the goal; It is the personal connection, the silent relief of shared vulnerability and not conformity, which he always chased. Vulnerable, aching and soulful honest, he chips it even deeper with “don’t let me go”, and offers another aching, beautiful human piece of himself to the world.
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