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 an album of crooning rockers and bubble-pop jams, which came about when Jerry let go to indulge in total, freewheeling play. They search deeper for what they really need from life. INBETWEEZER is out on Stones Throw today.
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“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.”
“Moonstruck” (visualizer by Fantastic 3d Creation) calls back to Jerry’s mushroom-laden experiences in the Arizona desert. A cartoon version of them bathes in a flying inflatable pool while crossing a moonlit desert before learning to accept themselves as they turn into a beautiful flower.
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.
Jerry says: “When I was in my early 20s I told myself that my only skill was music so I had to figure out how to make it work as a career. I spent the past almost-decade actualizing that, without seeing that I’d closed so many doors for my understanding of myself. So this song is about knowing that my life can expand beyond what I told myself it was when I was younger, and that unknowing is the stance to take towards any big journey.”
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
