Hollow Front release new single featuring former member Dakota Alvarez

After departing the band earlier this year, Dakota Alvarez has teamed back up with Hollow Front for two final songs.

Today (July 21) the band have unveiled Letting Go, which vocalist Tyler Tate says was initially “written more towards the idea of letting go of a past romantic relationship” when it was first being written. Then, when Dakota left, “the song took on a whole new meaning”.

“When it was time for me to write my parts, I started to see the song in a new perspective,” Tyler continues. “It became a song about Dakota needing to let go of Hollow Front and go out on his own.

“He might have been talking about an ex, when he wrote the lyrics, but when I heard the words, ‘We let our guard down / The passion’s gone now,’ I immediately connected with it, only in a different way than he had intended. All the pain of his departure came out. My lyrics became directed towards Dakota. Telling him how I was so sorry about him leaving, sorry that it had become too much for him to handle, because I never thought I’d have to lose him too.

“I truly thought Dakota and I were in this for the long haul together, that 10 – 20 years from now, we’d still be making music together. But sometimes life doesn't work out how you planned. And that’s okay. You pick up the pieces and move on. You let go of that pain and keep going.”

Listen to Letting Go below:

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