The Letting Go is a 2006 studio album by Bonnie "Prince" Billy.

Dawn McCarthy of Faun Fables also sings on the album.

The album's title comes from the last lines of the Emily Dickinson poem that starts "After a Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes.

"[2] This is the hour of lead Remembered if outlived, As freezing persons recollect the snow, First chill, then stupor, then the letting go.At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, The Letting Go received an average score of 84% based on 24 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

[3] Pitchfork placed The Letting Go at number 195 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.