Tom Odell returns with Don’t Let Me Go, his first new music of 2025 and a taster to a new full-length project expected later in the year.
Don’t Let Me Go was recorded at Tom’s own studios in Hackney, London and is a timely reminder of how effortlessly evocative Tom can be with both words and melody. Ruminating on love and life, yearning and heartbreak, Tom is a songwriter whose music has long since connected with millions of people of all ages and all walks of life, and whilst 14 billion “career streams” sounds like a lot (it is), it feels like Tom might only now be entering his imperial phase as an artist.
The London based musician is currently touring European arenas in support of Billie Eilish, kicking off with two nights at Stockholm’s Avicii Arena already this week, and concluding at Barcelona’s Palau Sant Jordi on June 15. Tom intersperses those support dates by heading out to North America for a string of intimate headline shows that includes New York’s Webster Hall on May 13. He arrives back in the UK for a performance at Radio One’s Big Weekend in Liverpool on May 24, before embarking on a handful of tiny European dates which all sold out instantly. This short European run is interspersed with a very special headline show at the 350 capacity Battersea Arts Centre on July 8, the first-time fans will have seen him play at a venue of that size in over a decade.
Meanwhile over on TikTok, Tom’s 2012 breakthrough hit Another Love has spent the last two years going quietly stratospheric, entering the top 50 on the Billboard TikTok chart, and soundtracking millions of TikTok videos, most commonly in support of Ukraine as a sign of hope, and by Iranian women to soundtrack protest videos in response to the death of Mahsa Amini whilst in the custody of the ‘morality police’. The song, originally written by a young Tom making his very first moves in this enduring musical career, has since accumulated over 2.8 billion streams on Spotify, becoming one of the top 25 most streamed songs of all time on the platform.
But these big streaming numbers and the accumulation of industry awards (BRITs and Ivor Novellos) only paint part of the story of this talented musician who manages to shoot arrows to the heart right across the globe that instantly relate to millions. It’s one reason why artists both young (The Last Dinner Party, Billie Eilish, AURORA) and old (Cat Stevens, Elton John) have expressed their love and support for what he does.
As an introduction to what comes next, Don’t Let Me Go, is a beautifully pertinent example of where Tom’s at in 2025, and ultimately where he might still be heading.
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