Jonah Kagen “Don’t Feel Right”
Today, acclaimed singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jonah Kagen announces his sophomore album, Eternity of Anything, arriving October 23 via Arista Records. Alongside the announcement, Kagen releases the album’s powerful first single, “Don’t Feel Right,” a dark, restless introduction to a record that pushes his songwriting toward a grander scale, pairing grittier production and unexpected sonic choices with songs built to fill stadiums, all while exploring one of life’s most overwhelming concepts: love in all its forms.
If Kagen’s debut album Sunflowers and Leather was born from motion, Eternity of Anything is its inverse. The earlier record followed a year of travel in an Airstream that doubled as a mobile studio, gathering stories from landscapes, strangers and life on the road. For the new album, Kagen stopped moving. He isolated himself, stayed in one place and confronted the emotional demons and questions he had previously been able to outrun.
The result is a deliberately melodramatic and self-aware portrait of romantic turmoil. Rather than tracing a single relationship or working toward the clean resolution of a conventional breakup record, Eternity of Anything follows Kagen as he confronts a subject that only grows more complicated the longer he sits with it.
“For my first album, I was moving through the world and writing down what happened. This time, I stopped moving and had to pull the songs out of myself,” says Kagen. “Eternity of Anything is about being intimidated by the size of love, the beginning of it, the ending of it, the absence of it, and all the ways it can make you spiral. It is dramatic on purpose, but it is also me making fun of my own drama.”
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