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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I make EVERY kind of music. The albums I've posted are:

Deluded:
Mixtape with all kinds of songwriting, rap, lofi. Recorded over the course of – maybe – four years. Jumping all over the shop.

Worldy:
Acoustic singer songwriter type tunes. I made this over the course of a year, my plan was to write and record a song a day – so I should have had 365 songs, but I ended up with 17. Yep. They are all recorded in one take, with some subtle overdubs.

Constant Nonsense:
Mixtape of really old stuff, some of my earliest efforts that – I think – still hold up. It's mostly indie, lofi, some beats and synthy experiments.

Little Raps:
I made the beats and I rapped the raps too. 

UFOs:
Some songs that I made over the course of a week, more indie, some experimentals and beats.

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

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