Listen to WILLOW’s powerful new ballad ‘Split’

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WILLOW has shared her new single ‘Split’, the latest preview from her forthcoming album ‘<COPINGMECHANISM>’ – listen the track below.The song is a reflective, powerful ballad, reflecting on a fractured relationship.“We never talk a lot / I need to see you ’cause you’re on my mind / And say, ‘I never wanted / I never wanted this for us,'” she sings, as the track climbs to a bellowing crescendo.“I couldn’t wait until the end of the week to let you hear this one…Split OUT NOW!” WILLOW wrote on Twitter.

before adding: “My new album <COPINGMECHANISM> IS DROPPING THIS FRIDAY!”Listen to ‘Split’ and watch the accompanying visuals below.Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about the new release, WILLOW said: “I feel like there were so many songs on the album that were just so high octane, hardcore just intense, and I really felt like there needed to be some purely emotional just ballads on there, honestly.“Just giving some emotional rock ballads.

And there were moments where I was like, ‘Oh no, I want to keep this crazy energy,’ but it needed the variety, it needed the balance.

But it is definitely a softer take on the sound of the album.Speaking to NME about the creative journey behind ‘<COPINGMECHANISM>’ , the singer shared that some of the album’s conceptual ideas go back several years.“I was always looking back at some old notes in my phone, and I had a folder and it was called ‘Coping Mechanism’,” she explained, adding that she had started it back in 2018. “This idea has been with me for a long time.”She also said that on this album, she leans more into themes that she might have avoided in the past. “I hate to say it, because when I made music when I was younger I really wanted to stay away from the idea of heartbreak and.