Oslo’s breakthrough indie-pop act JOA returns with a song that digs deep. She is already making a racket with her viscerally emotional and aching beautiful music. Her new single, “Let Go,” is an emotional journey through love, loss, and the bittersweet path to moving on. The song is one of JOA’s strongest tracks, released through Playground Music Scandinavia.
“Let Go” wraps you up in its warm, folky arms from the first strum of the guitar. It rides an indie-pop groove that feels intimate and organic, as if JOA were singing the song directly to you. Rather than striving for perfection, she embraces the imperfections, the pauses between words, and the slight quake in her voice, rendering the emotion behind the lyrics raw. The result is a song that feels immensely personal but still able to feel like a universal experience.
On “Let Go,” lyrically, it’s a song about release and healing. JOA welcomes us inside her life, where love once flourished but ultimately withered. There is a rawness to the music that perfectly reflects struggling to let go of someone who once meant the world. It’s about acceptance, about deciding to keep going even when it grieves us. Anyone who has ever struggled with leaving the past in the past will recognize a part of themselves in this song.
JOA’s original recording remains raw in its production and is preserved here. Nothing over-polished, nothing unnecessary on it, just pure emotion encased in a melody you can never shake off. It’s also rampant in a world where music gets so polished up it scatters. With “Let Go,” JOA makes a case for herself as more than another voice in the indie-pop zone, an artist with something real to say. It’s a rare quality, and it’s what makes her one to watch her ability to translate emotion into song.
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