Baby Rose Announces ‘YEARNALISM’ Album, Shares New Single ‘Let Me Go’

Washington D.C.-born artist Baby Rose returns with “Let Me Go,” the latest preview of her sophomore album YEARNALISM, out July 10 via Secretly Canadian. The track follows recent releases like “But, Nvm” and the Leon Thomas collaboration “Friends Again,” arriving as a bittersweet reflection on the end of a relationship and the slow turn toward healing.

Built around sunlit guitar strums and Rose’s bright, textured vocal, “Let Me Go” sits in a bruised soft-rock register. It distills the album’s central theme: not just longing, but a specific yearning for autonomy. “Not all things have to end with a crash and burn,” Rose explains. “‘Let Me Go’ is about yearning to be free and still friends at the end of it all… it’s not you, it’s me.”

YEARNALISM finds Rose expanding her sound through a renewed sense of self, drawing from soul, gospel, jazz, rock, and R&B while channeling the spirits of Muscle Shoals-era greats and vocalists like Etta James, Nina Simone, and Janis Joplin. The result, the artist suggests, aims for a tone that feels lived-in and timeless, grounding her references firmly in the present.

The song’s music video, directed by Amaya Segura and Rae Blackman, was shot in upstate New York and underlines the track’s search for release.