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Oct 24, 2024 By Caleb Campbell Photography by Catie Laffoon

LA-based indie pop singer/songwriter Rosie Darling released her debut album Lanterns late last year, following after a pair of EPs, 2021’s Coping and 2022’s Golden Age. In that time, she cemented her confessional style of minimalist indie pop, recalling the aching lyricism and delicate arrangements of rising pop singer/songwriters like Lizzie McAlpine and Maggie Rogers. Darling is set to return next year with another new project, and today she is back with her first single from the record, “This Is Me Letting You Go,” premiering with Under the Radar.

“This Is Me Letting You Go” comes steeped in Darling’s melancholic songcraft, with her vocals lilting above meditative acoustic chords, minimal synth drums, and flickering electronic production. Lyrically, the track meditates on the days and weeks after a break-up. Darling finds self-assurance and peace after the healing begins in earnest, shifting the track’s focus from heartache to catharsis. As the song winds onward it starts to sprawl outward, filling the negative space with guitars, live drums, and swelling harmonies until Darling closes the track on a final moment of lyrical closure: “So I move on / Settle that dust / It was what it was / And it’s long gone / Hanging it up / It was what it was / This is me letting you go / I’m letting you go.”

Darling says fo the track, “This song is the first real deep breath after a tough breakup when you can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. It is solely about you, and how you move through the grief that comes with ending a relationship, instead of focusing on the other person and their faults. Sometimes when a person defines so much of us in a relationship you have to meet your new self post-breakup and redefine your life and your own choices, specifically, the choice to move forward despite the uncertainty.”

Check out the song and video below. “This Is Me Letting You Go” is out everywhere tomorrow, October 25th via Nettwerk.