If the dull ache of existence is the caterpillar and reconciling with the uncertainty of life is the cocoon, Jerry Paper’s new album INBETWEEZER is the butterfly that splits its shell open and crawls out all wet and wondrous. It’s out on Stones Throw on September 27th and the first track – “Big Time” – is out today.
Stream: Jerry Paper – “Scenic Route”
Pre-order Vinyl: Jerry Paper – INBETWEEZER
INBETWEEZER is an album of crooning rockers and bubble-pop jams, which came about when Jerry Paper let go to indulge in total, freewheeling play. They search deeper for what they really need from life.
Lucas Nathan, the human being behind the Jerry Paper persona has been releasing music since 2012, collaborating with Weyes Blood, Mild High Club, Kari Faux, and Tyler, The Creator on the way. But after a grueling 6-week tour and a “cartoonishly large bag of psilocybin mushrooms”, Nathan realized that though they were having fun, constant touring wasn’t a recipe for a wholegrain life after all.
“Scenic Route”, sees Nathan change their outlook on life, letting go of the idealistic future their 20-year-old self envisioned and just living for “right now”. Nathan says: “It’s a raw one; I’m all caught up in some bullshit, lost in the abyss, and trying to get myself to slow down and be in my sensory world in the present.”
Jerry Paper Tour Dates
11 Oct – Los Angeles – Teragram Ballroom
17 Oct – San Diego – Soda Bar
23 Oct – Seattle – Madame Lou’s
24 Oct – Portland – Polaris Hall
27 Oct – San Francisco – Rickshaw Stop
2 Nov – Brooklyn – Brooklyn Made
