Charlotte Dos Santos Returns with New Single “Roses”

Charlotte Dos Santos released the single “Roses” today. It’s her first new material since the Neve Azul EP arrived earlier in 2025, and it arrives on her own imprint, True Node.

The track was written with Swedish composer and producer Joel Danell, who records under the name Sven Wunder. Danell’s own work blends orchestral jazz with psychedelic textures and library music atmospheres, and that partnership leaves a clear mark here. “Roses” uses a baroque palette, harpsichord and strings twisting around a beat that nods to classic soul without ever tipping into pastiche. The production breathes, which gives Dos Santos plenty of room. Her voice drifts across the arrangement rather than pushing through it, which has always been the thing that sets her apart.

Lyrically, the song deals with something direct and heavy. “It’s a song about a haunting love that still lingers,” Dos Santos explains, “a love that has frozen but isn’t forgotten, leaving only memories.” There’s a stillness in the way the words sit against the chords that makes the whole thing feel suspended, like exhaling frost.

Roses is out now on True Node. With the label operating under her control and a sound that keeps stretching the edges of what soul and experimental pop can hold, Dos Santos seems to be settling into a quieter, more deliberate trajectory. No grand statements. Just music that doesn’t need to explain itself twice.