Lucy Fitzgerald 
Mark Broscoe put out a new one called “Let It Go”, and I’ve had it looping in my headphones since I found it. It’s acoustic rock, recorded and mixed by Chris Strollo down in Pittsburgh, and you can tell nobody tried to polish the rough edges off it. Broscoe handles the guitar and vocals himself, and Miguel Díaz sits in on percussion, adding just enough without ever getting in the way. The first verse opens with him talking about planting seeds in a desert and getting nothing back for the effort, and that line about words that “can’t find anywhere to land” stuck with me the first time I heard it. Verse two flips into a different kind of struggle, someone trying to pull another person out of the water only to end up getting dragged under himself. It’s a heavy thing to sing about, and he doesn’t try to soften it or explain it away; he just lets the image speak for itself.
Then that chorus kicks in with “sometimes you gotta let it go”, and it works because the whole song keeps circling back to water, shallow water you can’t dive into, a current that’s stronger than you, a river that’s easier to follow than fight. My honest opinion is that this is one of the more grounded songs I’ve heard in a while about letting go of control, and I really do think it belongs on everyone’s playlist; it’s the kind of song that meets you wherever you’re at that day. Broscoe sounds like someone who’s actually lived this, not someone performing sadness for a camera.
If this one grabbed you at all, go follow Mark Broscoe; this feels like an artist building something real one song at a time, and you’ll want to be paying attention to whatever comes after this. Add “Let It Go” to your playlist and pass it along to someone who needs to hear it right now.
Listening to songs so you don’t have to! Just kidding :D, you totally should. Music blogger by day, nurse by night
