The point in time where I wrote this, I was recognizing for the first time that if I continued to fit myself into other peoples lives and sacrifice my own values in order to make them happy I would end up giving up everything. The last thing I ever want to do is hurt those I care about, but sometimes it is necessary if your own integrity is at stake. I wrote this song knowing the decisions I needed to make, knowing I needed to leave a place that felt difficult to exist, and how this decision would hurt those I loved. This song is about wishing someone would just tell you what your life will look like so that the guilt and hurt you feel along the way might not feel so heavy.

The song itself wears these difficult emotions lightly, existing in a dreamy pastel-coloured world that feels warm and tranquil. Sedate percussion beats steadily behind woozy guitar and soft, gauzy atmospherics, Brokenshire’s vocals coming through smooth and syrupy. But that’s not to say it downplays the anxiety and turmoil that inspired it. Rather, it’s a moment of pure vulnerability, seeing Rose Brokenshire find the courage to open up completely, to wilfully ignore the constant nagging doubt and share the soft, squishy core of her innermost feelings. As she put it in an Instagram post to unveil the single, “Nothing is perfect except the present moment and being brave and creating art regardless of the mountain of fear that comes with doing something vulnerable.”

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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.”

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