Grand Rapids, Mich., native Jason Singer is a multidimensional expertise with an enormous coronary heart—one who appears like he was weaned on the melody-infused punk/emo aesthetic of fellow Midwesterners Fall Out Boy and the Get Up Children. As soon as in Nashville, Singer was matched with Jeremy Lutito, a Grammy-nominated author/producer related to main promoting campaigns and acts like Needtobreathe and Jars Of Clay. Amid the flurry of creativity that led to Michigander (Completely Regular/Thirty Tigers), Lutito served as producer, cowriter and sounding board, and his meticulous craftsmanship doesn’t go away a ton of room for Singer to maneuver. There’s extra Michigander in Michigander begging to return out—and that bodes effectively for the longer term.
Again within the right here and now, Singer takes us by Michigander’s dozen tracks.
—Hobart Rowland
1) “Broadcast”
“This one is about how the world is so loopy typically that it looks like we’re on a tv present. Day by day, I get up and browse some horrible new story about how our nation goes downhill. It sucks.”
2) “Emotional”
“Being alive is difficult. We’re all simply attempting our greatest, regardless of being human. The secret’s to simply hold going.”
3) “Peace Of Thoughts”
“I wrote this one with Butch Walker. It’s about dwelling wealthy on minimal wage. It’s about how falling in love doesn’t resolve all of your issues. It’s about how the grass is actually all the time greener on the opposite aspect of the fence.”
4) “Giving Up”
“This is among the final songs I wrote for this album. Final January, I went to slightly cabin to jot down some songs and ended up solely penning this one. I used to be so happy with it that, as a substitute of attempting to high it, I simply drove again dwelling that night time.”
5) “Letterman”
“This was one of many first songs I wrote for the album. I had my guitar in a decrease tuning and simply began enjoying this riff again and again. I looped it on my laptop and wrote over high of it. It’s a kind of songs about rising up and coming to phrases with the world altering round you.”
6) “Breaker Field”
“Written with Trent Dabbs and Jeremy Lutito, this track was the hardest to get proper. I used to be attempting to say lots with this one with out being too particular. It’s a track about not letting different folks’s poor selections dictate your emotions—one thing I actually battle with.”
7) “Spitting Picture”
“This monitor virtually didn’t make the minimize. However Jeremy edited it, and it turned out to be one in every of my favourite songs on the album. It has one in every of my favourite lyrics: “How lengthy it takes to construct the hill you’ll die on.” It’s about accepting your pals for who they’re.”
8) “I’ll Be OK”
“This one’s about having my first-ever panic assaults. I used to be at SXSW in 2024, and I believed I is likely to be having a coronary heart assault. I went to pressing care, and all the pieces was positive. Since then, I’ve had many extreme panic assaults and a lot anxiousness for the primary time in my life. It was such a wierd new feeling. It took quite a lot of work and remedy and meds, however I at the moment really feel like I acquired it beneath management. Aspect observe: In case you’re struggling, please speak to somebody. Speak to your physician; speak to a trusted buddy. You’ll be able to overcome it.”
9) “Necessary”
“This has been one in every of my fave ones to play stay. It was initially imagined to be an upbeat rock track. However once I was writing it with Chris Koo and Sam Hollander, I confirmed it to them on piano they usually had been satisfied it was extra of a ballad. They had been proper. I completely adore this track and might’t imagine it’s mine.”
10) “Episode”
“I wrote this one with Trent—it was our first time working collectively. It’s a track about realizing you perhaps have outgrown folks you used to really feel actually shut with.”
11) “Socialite”
“This was my first actual try at writing a ‘political’ track. I really feel prefer it’s actually arduous to tug this off. I’m undecided I did. I’ll let the listener be the decide. It’s a track about being brainwashed by radical ideology. It’s for all of the haters who inform me to ‘keep on with the music’ at any time when I share an opinion.”
12) “Hair”
“This track is so particular. I wrote it once I acquired an heirloom household piano. I looped this piano half and wrote the track in a single take. This one makes me cry—I hope it makes you cry, too.”
See Michigander stay.
