Achingly intimate and fantastically uncooked, Joh Chase’s “Risking It With You” is a give up to vulnerability and letting love in.

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There’s nothing I can management that makes the laborious components straightforward. However one thing I do know for positive: I’m dedicated to risking it with you…

If love is about taking the last word threat and leaping into the deep finish with one other soul, then Joh Chase’s newest launch is the soundtrack to that visceral expertise. Achingly intimate and fantastically uncooked, “Risking It With You” is a give up to vulnerability and letting love in.

As a result of no matter occurs to us sooner or later, the love we now have as we speak, within the current, will at all times be value its potential loss down the street. In essence, Joh Chase is proclaiming themselves a steadfast believer in that evergreen Tennyson phrase, ’tis higher to have liked and misplaced than by no means to have liked in any respect. And that’s a message we will all get behind.

You would possibly fall in love
with somebody in group remedy,
They could see you extra clearly than me,
Or flip you on like I used to.
I might get sick and lose my thoughts.
Go away you in a cloud of mud behind;
Flip in to another person.

There’s nothing that I can maintain
that may promise me we’ll at all times be.
There’s nothing I can management
that makes the laborious components straightforward.
However one thing I do know for positive:
I’m dedicated to risking it with you.

Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “Risking It With You,” Joh Chase’s churning, emotionally-charged fourth single on Kill Rock Stars. Since re-“debuting” earlier this yr with their new title, the Seattle-born, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has rapidly reestablished themself as a wellspring of potent, highly effective, and deeply shifting indie rock,

Don’t let their lack of accessible tracks on Spotify idiot you; Chase isn’t any newcomer to the scene, with a resume that spans practically two full a long time within the business. Touring nationally and regionally since 2006, they’ve opened for everybody from Noah Gundersen and David Bazan to Robert DeLong and Barcelona, and independently funded a number of full size data over time.

That wealth of expertise is straight away evident in Chase’s newest batch of songs – ostensibly their reintroduction to the world as they discovered a brand new house in Kill Rock Stars this yr. Chase launched their mild big of a debut single “Fortunate Penny” in February of this yr; heat and wondrous, this groovy alt-folk observe is directly enjoyable and fervent, highlighting Chase’s capacity to marry candy, lilting melodies with the deeper points of their songwriting.

Following “Fortunate Penny,” the stirringly soulful “One other Lover,” and this previous July’s sonically seductive “Typically,” “Risking It With You” is Chase’s fourth observe of the yr, and arguably their most intimate providing but (although one might argue the identical of “One other Lover”). Sporting a self-produced and directed music video that locations Chase entrance and heart, singing (and searching) straight into the digital camera at numerous places across the metropolis, “Risking It With You” is maybe finest appreciated as a declaration of intent: It’s a tune of steadfast love and heartfelt devotion, with brutally trustworthy lyrics and an equally susceptible, uncooked efficiency.

We might purchase a home however lose it in a fireplace,
Attempt to begin over, however we crumble.
We by no means might agree on the paint.
You could possibly discover one thing new about your self,
Understand you may’t be with me now.
You want some house to grasp.

“‘Risking It With You’ was a type of songs that got here to me unexpectedly in the course of the 2020 lockdown,” Chase tells Atwood Journal. “Amidst the craziest of occasions, sharing a one bed room condominium with my accomplice, our two cats and joint custody pit bull that don’t get alongside, each working from house, there have been many moments the place I needed less complicated options for the chaos, however they weren’t so fast to seem.”

“At one level that summer time, I went as much as my dad and mom’ home for some time to put in writing and get my head collectively. This tune was the aftermath of that author’s retreat and time alone, away from my accomplice. The manufacturing is guitar pushed, however formed right into a lo-fi bed room recording, stripped down model of my sound.”

Chase expresses every little thing that must be stated within the refrain, whose stunning sentiments – worthy of the most effective wedding ceremony vows – face life’s inevitable turbulence and left turns not with hesitation, concern, or doubt, however quite, with wholehearted, unapologetic acceptance:

There’s nothing that I can maintain
that may promise me we’ll at all times be.
There’s nothing I can management
that makes the laborious components straightforward.
However one thing I do know for positive:
I’m dedicated to risking it with you.

“There’s nothing I can management that makes the laborious components straightforward,” they sing, “However one thing I do know for positive: I’m dedicated to risking it with you.” That is love accomplished proper. Stream Joh Chase’s “Risking It With You” completely on Atwood Journal, and keep tuned for extra from the artist as they break us down, solely to construct us again up once more.

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