EP Review: Becoming Young - 'Letting Go'
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Becoming Young shares emotionally charged three-track EP, 'Letting Go’
Becoming Young is the project Brandon Calano who has followed up his 2021 album The Songs I Wrote You with a three-track EP entitled ‘Letting Go’. The EP opens with the powerful ‘Auburn’, a dark-leaning track full of niggling guitarwork, thunderous drum patterns and aching vocals as Calano rawly asserts, ‘I don’t want to hear your name no more, but you echo in my beating heart’.
As the crashes of emotion courtesy of ‘Auburn’ fade out, the gentle tones of ‘Novocaine Dreams’ begins; a spacious, confessional of a song driven by raw, acoustic guitar rhythm that fills out with touching, electronic layers on its emotive chorus.
’Coming Back’ wraps the track up on a foot-stomping, folk-pop-infused life-affirming note. It’s the track’s most upbeat track and embodies what Becoming Young’s moniker is all about as Calano explains, ‘it represents the journey to let go of everything we are not, so we can become who we were meant to be all along’.
‘Letting Go’ is a punchy, intelligently crafted, pop-infused EP that trials the pains and perks of simply being human.
Words of Karla Harris