Jess Kerber is back with a new album. The Nashville singer-songwriter just announced The World Is Dark, But I Want It To Be Funny, the followup to last year's debut From Way Down Here. That record dropped on the always dependable LA label Felte, and it marked her as a writer who could hold big feelings in small rooms.
The lead single "Changing" arrives today, and it's a stunner. Lush, existential, patient: this is a track that lets its arrangement bloom while Kerber keeps her voice front and center. If you loved the aching intimacy of her debut, this hits that same nerve, just with more air in the mix.
The album title says everything about where her head is at. Dark world, funny heart, songs that live in the space between. That balance is what made From Way Down Here connect, and it sounds like she's leaning further into it here.
Kerber keeps building. "Changing" is the proof.