- 2025-04-26
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MUSIC
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Tom Odell Returns with New Song “Don't Let Me Go”
British singer-songwriter Tom Odell returned with a new song “Don't Let Me Go” on April 25, 2025.
The song is his first solo music since the 2024 album “Black Friday”.
He recorded the song with producer Cityfall at London's RAK studios.
The track, written by Laurie Blundell and Tom Odell, has a romantic yet melancholic feel. It explores themes of love, loss, and pain, capturing the chaos of the world around them.
The accompanying music video was directed by Alex Leggatt.
Tom Odell said of the song, “For me the song is very much inspired by a kinda sense of looming apocalypse. The fire raging outside, but inside life seems to go as if everything is normal. That despairing thought, 'why does no one seem to care' .. the comet in the sky in melancholia.... but the song is also about devotion. About love being a kinda divine commitment, think Jack and Rose holding onto one another as the titanic goes down, their hands white and shivering. Anna Karenina throwing herself in front of the train... that song ‘I Will Follow You Into the Dark’ by Death Cab for Cutie.”- He said of the video, “We being Alex Leggatt and I, who sat for endless hours together in my studio coming up with the visual world. We were very inspired by 70's conceptual artists like Doug Wheeler (respect to you Doug) and James Turrel. We built this giant empty box in a huge studio in London, emulating a kinda abyss, a void, a purgatory if you will. And had a lot of fun playing with the tension you can create with space and light in such a vast space. The meeting point between the outer world and the inner, the present world and the past, and so on. Alex had this idea of bringing in a ladder, (inspired by Jacob's Ladder) and this idea that I am trying to follow the other character into another world, into heaven, but ultimately I can't, and I fall back down to earth.”
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He is currently supporting Billie Eilish's Hit Me Hard And Soft Tour in Europe through to June 15, 2025.
Also, he embarks on Don't Let Me Go Tour in North America, UK and Europe. The tour kicks off at Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC on May 12 and will conclude at Saint Andrew's Hall in Detroit, MI on September 27, 2025.
Learn more about tour dates, here. - source : Apple Music
