excellent guitar playing, totally trippy and otherworldly sounds, great vocals

Great musical touches throughout and a soaring melody

great hard groove with melodic vocals!!  (maybe too much high end filler bits?)

The new synth-rock single from Chris Robley recalls Secret Machines, Muse, Radiohead, and Bjork, with its obsessive, buzzing bass, soaring vocals, and squalor of guitar.

Engineered by Jeff Stuart Saltzman at Secret Society in Portland, Oregon.
Mixed by Jeff Stuart Saltzman at Mysterious Beard in Portland, Oregon.
Mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph in Portland, Oregon. 

Performed by:

Arthur Parker - Keyboards
Daniel Adlaf - Synth Bass
John Stewart - Drums and Percussion
Chris Robley - Vocals, guitars, and keyboards

Lyrics:

I gotta let you go (4x)
Oh, how could you shut me out right now
when I couldn't need you more
and how haven't you realized by now
the one you've been waiting for is here

But I wanna be the only one (3x)
you love

Let You Go

Chris Robley - "Let You Go" (radio edit)

Chris Robley is a poet, songwriter, and producer whose lush, orchestral indie-pop has been praised by NPR, the LA Times, the Boston Globe, and others. Skyscraper Magazine said he is “one of the best short-story musicians to come along in quite some time.”

Robley’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Magma Poetry, and more. He is the winner of Boulevard’s 2013 Poetry Prize for Emerging Writers and a 2014 recipient of the Maine Literary Award for poetry.

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