Jonah Kagen Streams New Album 'Eternity Of Anything'
(Arista) Acclaimed singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Jonah Kagen releases his sophomore album, Eternity of Anything, via Arista Records - Listen here.
Part of today's release is the album's focus track, "Ain't Convinced," which brings emotional intensity into sharp relief, tracing the aftermath of a loss so consuming. Moving between scenes of private collapse and calls to an absent love from the road, Kagen captures the disorientation of carrying someone's memory everywhere while feeling as though there is no one left waiting for him. "Ain't Convinced" features a Fred Again sample from Fred's song "We (Heavy)" a B side of Fred's as Jonah is a massive fan of his music/producing.
Of the project, Kagan shares, "I hope you find a piece of you in this record, there is very ounce of me in it, and there is no me without you. Thank you for everything. Eternity of Anything is yours now."
The project finds Kagen turning sharply inward after the outward-looking journey of his debut, Sunflowers and Leather. That record was born during a year spent traveling the country in an Airstream that doubled as a mobile studio, gathering songs from landscapes, strangers, and life on the road. This time, Kagen stopped moving.
For Eternity of Anything, Kagen immersed himself in nearly every stage of the recording process, writing, producing, recording, engineering, and mixing the album himself. Working in near-total isolation over an intense two-to-three-month stretch, he often stayed up until 4 a.m. and deliberately kept the music from outside ears until it was complete. That level of control is embedded in the album's sound, with Kagen able to move directly from lyric and melody into arrangement, texture, and final mix without handing the songs off at each stage of the process.
The resulting album pushes his confessional songwriting into a more expansive and adventurous sonic world while preserving the intensely personal perspective at the center of his work. His role behind the boards becomes an extension of his voice as a songwriter, with production offering another way to shape the feeling of a song. Each layer belongs to the same conversation, from the first words on the page to the final decisions in the mix.
Where his debut drew inspiration from an ever-changing world outside the window, Eternity of Anything gives Kagen room to explore what surfaces when the scenery stays the same. It marks a new chapter for an artist whose willingness to follow a song now reaches into every detail of how it is made.
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