JP Saxe broadcasts his two-part album with half one, ‘Articulate Excuses’, due out April 18 plus shares his new single, “Smartphone Make Me Dumb”.
Multi-platinum grasp storyteller JP Saxe has introduced a forthcoming two-part album, with half one, ‘Articulate Excuses’, due out April 18 on Arista Data.
The announcement comes alongside the discharge of the relatable meditation on our trendy situation and viscerally weak, “Smartphone Make Me Dumb” and its accompanying lyric video.
The 2-part album traces the GRAMMY®-nominated singer-songwriter’s journey by way of a collection of private revelations.
After writing and recording the album and feeling like there have been two distinct themes to the songs, Saxe determined to current the album in two components – he describes the choice as “90% for artistic causes and 10% due to the pragmatism of navigating folks’s more and more nonexistent consideration spans. I really like my music a lot and even l have hassle listening to 14 in a row. So how may I anticipate another person to?” Every half has a singular sonic and thematic id that offers one message when listened to by itself or as a whole venture.”
“Smartphone Make Me Dumb” matches squarely into ‘Articulate Excuses’, which pulls from a interval by which Saxe labored to come back to phrases along with his patterns and personhood to date.
The observe opens on fairly piano and a tension-building tone as Saxe sings searchingly a couple of acquainted model of existential dread: “I can’t get off the bed, there’s nothing good I can think about / It’s scary in my head, I’m not prepared for these interactions / I’ll do something for a distraction.”
Whereas many of the tune lives in a pensive place, Saxe is joined by a soulful refrain of voices for the heartbreaking hook: “Don’t go away me alone with my ideas.”
“Consciousness is exhausting,” says Saxe. “Looking at scorching strangers and whales and hydraulic smushed crayons for five seconds at a time in your telephone is approach simpler. So is poison-induced vulnerability (alcohol) and disconnection masked as connection (flippant intercourse). Positive, perhaps our brains are slowly rotting, however at the very least we’re not burdened by the stress of aliveness.”
In January, Saxe shared the primary style of the half one, “Secure”, a sweetly moody R&B-kissed pop observe co-written and produced by Malay (Frank Ocean, FLETCHER, Lorde) that put his signature mixture of reflection and wit on full show.
That was, in actual fact, Saxe’s first new solo tune since he hit the street in late 2023 in assist of John Mayer’s area tour, after which saved going deep into 2024 on his personal sold-out, globe-spanning, headlining run.
Saxe’s final new launch was 2023’s ‘A Grey Space’ album, which was largely produced by Malay and included the grooving, Mayer-featuring “I Don’t Miss You”, plus collaborations with the likes of five-time Latin-GRAMMY®-winning Colombian musician Camilo, folk-pop trio Tiny Habits, and singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine.
The LP garnered reward from many main media shops.
By brazenly exploring his deepest anxieties and feelings, Saxe shared what was then his most relatable set of songs up to now.
Final yr, after canvassing North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia on his “A Gray Space World Tour”, Saxe shared a pair of efficiency albums: ‘A Gray Space (Stay Classes)’ — that includes acclaimed visitor instrumentalists like Cory Henry and Tal Wilkenfeld — and ‘Stay on Stage’, recordings from his current excursions that included a shifting solo model of his late 2019 blockbuster, “If The World Was Ending”.
Saxe has already confirmed himself to be a grasp of off-the-cuff intimacy, however along with his forthcoming EPs, it’s clear that he’s bringing us in even nearer.
‘Articulate Excuses‘ Tracklisting:
- Smartphone Make Me Dumb
- I Wanna Transfer To Brooklyn
- Secure
- Baddie With A Vape Habit
- Smooth Ass Bitch
- Okay Anyway
- Let A Ginger Make You Cry
- (grandpa’s interlude)
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Lyric Video:
JP Saxe’s “Smartphone Make Me Dumb” observe can be out there now to stream and cop whereas his ‘Articulate Excuses‘ album is on the market now to pre-add/pre-other/pre-save on all main digital streaming platforms