We’ve written about Canadian songwriter Rose Brokenshire several times in recent years, with songs like ‘Better Now‘ and ‘Dreamer‘ introducing a warm blend of folk, ambient and dream pop sensibilities. “From within this welcoming space,” we wrote of the latter, “[Brokenshire’s] vocals lift and lilt with genuine compassion, lending the track a sense of kindness which permeates its every facet.” This empathetic style feels as intentional as it is authentic, as highlighted by recent single ‘Habit To Help’. A song which delivered a message of healing and self-belief in a whisper rather than a shout, blurring the line between soft dreams and the tactile living world. “As though under the surface sits an unyielding conviction in the value of empathy,” as we put it, “even if we sometimes need to run our hands over it in order to remind ourselves of its presence.”
With an EP scheduled for release later this year, Rose Brokenshire has now shared a new single ‘type two’. Based around “all the truly sweet, steep and deep days backcountry skiing in the beautiful Canadian mountains of British Columbia with friends,” the track represents an effort to preserve special moments and celebrate the ways in which they reinvigorate us. But thanks to the quirks specific to these memories in particular, the track also works in the opposite direction. A reminder that while moments of peace and release are what we long for, you can only enjoy descending the slopes after you have climbed the mountain in the first place. The title, a reference to the skiing term ‘type two fun’ is a nod to this idea—an unpleasant or difficult moment which comes to be all the more fondly remembered in hindsight. “More often than not, the majority of the fun is held in the memories of the struggle hiking up,” as Brokenshire explains, “and I wouldn’t want it any other way. This song is for all of the friends that make the uphill journey so much more rewarding than the actual ski out.”