Posted by In “Don’t Leave It to Fate,” Tarric doesn’t raise his voice, but he raises the stakes. The single, released as a lead-up to his forthcoming album Method, strips down both production and sentiment to deliver a quiet yet pointed rebuke of passive living. In a culture more comfortable with scrolling than standing up, Tarric opts for the latter—even if it’s not shouted, but sung with tempered urgency.
The track channels the cool detachment of new wave—leaning into minimal synth layers and pulsing rhythms reminiscent of Songs of Faith and Devotion-era Depeche Mode. There’s a stark intentionality to the sound. Where his debut Lovesick offered warm melodic turns and emotional openness, “Don’t Leave It to Fate” embraces stillness, both sonically and thematically. The result is a song that resists easy consumption—it asks to be sat with, not skipped.
“The growth is in the pain / Get up and take a stand,” he sings, blunt and declarative. He’s not interested in metaphors this time around. The chorus—“As time fades away / We’ve got power today”—is delivered like a mantra, looping through the track like a ticking clock, echoing the song’s central tension: What happens when we wait too long to act?
It’s not a protest song in the traditional sense, but it does function as quiet activism. Tarric’s framing of discomfort as necessary growth speaks to a personal reckoning that resonates within broader social narratives. The lyrics imply a critique of the wellness-era impulse to bypass difficulty with platitudes or passive hope. “Take action and pray,” he suggests—not as opposites, but as concurrent necessities.
Method now appears positioned to explore this shift in full—a pivot from personal heartbreak to existential concern. Whether the rest of the record will follow this understated, disciplined tone remains to be seen.