Singer-songwriter Conner Cherland has re-emerged with a luminous and deeply private new album ‘It’s So Good To See You,’ simply two years after releasing his first full-length file.
Spanning eight tracks, this challenge is a daring evolution of each sound and self.
The album opens with the light-hearted single ‘I Made a Good friend in LA,’ an account of Cherland’s first months residing in Los Angeles.
Certainly, a significant theme current all through the challenge is that the reward of true intimacy is earned with steady, long-term effort.
In ‘It’s So Good To See You,’ Cherland muses “It’s so good to see you, shut like household ought to’ve felt… again then when no person knew me, you tried to determine me out.”
After which once more in ‘Swim’: “I’ve watched you alter, watched you crumble, I’ve recognized you so lengthy that I don’t know what you might be. However, you swim beside me at the hours of darkness.”
On the identical time, Cherland has discovered himself growing a fierce self-reliance lately that translated over to the making of this album.
Totally self-produced, the album reveals a newfound inventive confidence, pairing Cherland’s seasoned guitar chops with adventurous harmonies, and, for the primary time in his profession, a music on acoustic piano.
A query that saved coming again to him when penning this album was, how do you solidify the a part of your self that is aware of what it needs to be?
The result’s a file that feels each grounded and expansive.
‘It’s So Good To See You’ additionally marks a shift visually, as Cherland seems on an album cowl for the very first time—even when masked by a beetle’s head.
The inspiration for the duvet artwork got here to him as he was wandering alone by way of the Pure Historical past Museum’s 2025 Bug Truthful.
“These bugs have been so small however meant a lot to me, and that instilled a bizarre sense of energy and confidence,” he displays.
In that sense, the masks isn’t a technique to conceal, however a reclamation of the self.
Throughout that very same go to, Cherland noticed a spider moulting, coming slowly out of its carapace. “The way in which it shrunk and expanded because it left [the shell], it seemed like lungs respiratory.
It was lovely.” he remarked. That’s what this album is: a shedding. A turning into.
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