Caroline Romano has been building toward this moment one honest song at a time, and ‘it took me falling’ delivers on every bit of that momentum. The 6-track EP is out now, a vivid snapshot of personal growth and resilience from the Mississippi-born, Nashville-based alt-pop singer-songwriter, and new single “Unsteady” captures its emotional centre with disarming simplicity. Listen here.
Built around plucky guitar and delicately vulnerable vocals, “Unsteady” is one of the EP’s most tender moments, unfolding like a sonic poem about the terrifying, transformative experience of letting yourself fall in love. Romano puts it directly: “It’s a song about falling in love and letting yourself do it. I’ve learned that love has made me soft and brave and terrified and happy, and so much more myself in ways I never knew before. I wanted to capture that discovery in ‘Unsteady.'”
That spirit of discovery runs through all 6 tracks. At its core, ‘it took me falling’ traces the search for the person, the love, or the dream you’ve been chasing, and the necessary pain that so often precedes something genuinely beautiful. Romano moves between misty-eyed tenderness and fiery alt-rock energy with the kind of ease that comes from years of refining exactly who she is as an artist.
Following her 16-track 2022 debut ‘Oddities and Prodigies’ and two subsequent EPs, ‘A Brief Epic’ (2023) and ‘How The Good Girls Die’ (2025), Romano has drawn praise from tmrw Magazine, idobi Radio, Ones To Watch, and EUPHORIA, packed out rooms across Nashville, and toured in support of Grayscale and Smallpools. ‘it took me falling’ is her sharpest, most emotionally focused release yet.
‘it took me falling’ Tracklist:
- Cruel and Unusual Punishment
- Up the Stairs
- Not Used to You
- There It Is
- Unsteady
- it took me falling