Canadian industrial/metal/synth‑pop artist Billie Rogue has released her debut full-length, Let The Old Dreams Die — an adult coming‑of‑age body of work steeped in themes of ego death, shattered and fading dreams, killing old ambitions, and accepting that not everything materialises. It is a narrative of letting go and moving forward… or tightening one's grip and persevering.

Billie Rogue reflects on the creative journey: "This album was six years in the making, and it covers the changes I went through after releasing my first body of work, which was an EP called Eclectric. I was 22, just got on my meds, the city was in lockdown, my frontal lobe hadn't developed yet. I was super euphoric: I just released something, was getting played on some radios, had a couple interviews—a bit of an ego, but it was from excitement and optimism. I was making plans for working on a full album. Eventually that 'high' died. Life hit me: I started college, got tired, got busy, and my last live show kinda flopped. I started to ask myself what was the point of all this. Any song I'd come up with, I hated and would discard it. Write a new song again—hate it. Maybe rediscover it months later and repeat the cycle, all on top of a rapidly evolving life involving grown-up anxieties about my future: career, finances, existentialism, travelling, anarchy, 'will I ever own a home or have nice things', what opportunities could life give me in these uncertain times. I was no longer just a big dreamer living in my rockstar fantasies anymore; I got beaten down to a hustler with darker eye bags. Link