Jack’s Maze return with a song about the thing that brought them back in the first place. “Let It Go” treats music as relief, obsession, and something harder to separate from yourself once it has occupied enough of your life. For Frank Cinquegrana, that contradiction is literal. Music is almost constantly running through his head, whether he wants it there or not. The new single takes that constant inner soundtrack and opens it into the band’s broad progressive rock language.
Cinquegrana first arrived at the basic music and melody roughly fifteen years ago, carrying fragments of the song long before the rest of it was finished. That long gestation suits Jack’s Maze. Their history has never moved in a straight line, and “Let It Go” does not sound interested in forcing one. It unfolds with an easy patience, letting keyboards, guitar, bass, and drums move around a spacious melodic centre while the vocal keeps the song connected to the thought that started it.
There is plenty of classic and progressive rock scale here, but the arrangement never feels burdened by it. Robin Ross’ keyboards give the track depth and movement, Scott Cowan’s guitar adds shape and lift, and Joe Torres’ bass keeps everything grounded while Cinquegrana handles both the vocal and drums. The song stretches naturally, giving each part room to settle into the next.
Cinquegrana’s delivery is especially important to that ease. He sings with presence, but there is something conversational underneath it, as though he is following the thought wherever it leads. That keeps “Let It Go” from becoming a simple declaration about music saving people. The lyric knows the other side too well. A melody can clear your head, then stay there long after you wanted silence.
That idea gives the single a natural place in the band’s history without reducing it to a comeback story. Jack’s Maze began in the New York tri state scene in 1989, originally as Laughing Jack, and completed its first album in 1993 before life pulled the project apart. The record sat unheard for decades until the band reunited in 2022 and finally brought that material into the world.
What matters now is that “Let It Go” does not sound like musicians trying to recreate the period they came from. The older foundations are still audible, especially the affection for expansive songwriting and classic progressive rock, but the song belongs to people who have continued accumulating experience long after the first version of the band went quiet.
Jack’s Maze already have the unusual history. They do not need to make every new song prove the romance of survival. “Let It Go” works because it feels current within their own story. It is about the continuing pull of music, written by people who have already seen how easily it can disappear from daily life and how naturally it can find its way back.
The track was recorded at Baa Baa Leaf Studio in Milford, Pennsylvania, where Ross produced, recorded, and mixed the forthcoming album with Jonathan Duckett serving as supervising engineer. Tina Ross contributes ghost vocals, adding a faint secondary presence around Cinquegrana’s lead. The production gives the arrangement plenty of air, allowing its guitars, keyboards, rhythm section, and vocals to move without crowding one another.
“Let It Go” also introduces Once In A Blue Moon, Jack’s Maze’s forthcoming second album. The record extends the band’s post reunion chapter with new material rather than another return to the archive, carrying the story forward from the music they finally recovered into the music they are making now.
The strongest thing about the single is how comfortable Jack’s Maze sound inside it. There is no rush to prove the years away mattered, no need to turn every passage into a grand statement. The song simply moves, opening and settling at its own pace while the idea underneath it remains quietly persistent.
For a band that spent decades away, “Let It Go” carries remarkably little nostalgia. It is more interested in what happens when the music never really leaves.
“Let It Go” is out now via RPM Entertainment. The single previews Once In A Blue Moon, due in January 2027.
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