Rose White’s "Next of Kin": A Soulful Ode to Love, Loss, and Letting Go
Under London's restless nights' sparkle of light, an emergent voice appears—Rose White, Polish-born London-based singer-songwriter, whose lyrics are a conversation you never knew you were waiting to have. With vocals compared to Duffy, Paloma Faith, and Olivia Dean as rich and gritty, Rose has carved out a ground between grandeur and closeness. She dropped her new single Next of Kin on the 12th of September, a track blending soul, pop, and bossa nova rhythms, reframing what it is to gracefully accept love and loss.
The origin story to Next of Kin is just as raw as the song itself. It was a night out in London, a summer evening, when Rose was in A&E, when a nurse pointed out the blankness in her "next of kin" box. The question lingered well after she had completed the visit, dissipating into bigger questions about those individuals we loved most, who, due to the natural dissipation of time, are no longer remembered. Instead of bitterness, Rose's song concludes on kindness—a reminder that not all goodbyes are tragedies. Sometimes the quiet demise of a relationship is a testament to how alive it was.
Written with Ollie Clark and Joshua Woolf, Next of Kin introduces Rose's second EP, A Night With A Sazerac. It's a product characterized as much by collaboration as experience—of heartbreak tempered by recollection, of friendships that fizzled out without malice, of the act of strength it requires to take personal resonance and make it be understood by others. Rose's talent is her ability for vulnerability to be made strong, to convey truths we swallow but never stop feeling.
Her life is as exciting as her music. From arriving in London at twenty, with £300 and two suitcases, to battling the open mic scene and releasing her ferociously acclaimed debut EP One Fourth Mark, Rose has struck out solo with aplomb and drive. Now, as a 'Help Musicians' Next Level Award winner, she goes on to have a new experience, headlining in her own night Night With A Sazerac at SJQ in Dalston on 23rd October. If Next of Kin is anything to go by, Rose White's not just reading out her own life but ours as well, entwining common truths with the melody of her voice, reminding us that even from afar, we can continue to cheer each other on.
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