Last year, Jeremy Zucker released his debut album ‘love is not dying’ to critical acclaim. The material on that project catapulted him to international stardom and the star has been praised for his ability to write music from the heart. Now, just one year after the release of the project, Jeremy is back with his second studio album ‘CRUSHER’ – and showcases an immense amount of growth in his artistry.
With a newfound creative freedom, Jeremy opened up his sonic palette on the album and incorporated different elements and sounds, defining his artistic identity like never before. The 12-track album features his latest single, ‘Therapist’, alongside his summertime anthems, ’18’ and ‘HONEST,’ and heartfelt ballad, ‘Cry with you.’
In Jeremy’s words, “‘CRUSHER’ is as much a departure as it is an arrival. ‘love is not dying’, thematically, was a doomed love letter. A desperate plea for compassion and understanding in the face of destruction. Making music during a pandemic is a difficult task enough, but ‘love is not dying’ felt like a pretty impossible project to follow up. One ‘pandemic’-inspired song felt like enough, and not much was going on in my life, at all. The well was dry, so to speak. I was slow to realize that the person I wrote ‘love is not dying’ to (not for), actually hadn’t acknowledged any of it. During this time, a lot of things came to light…”
He continues, “‘CRUSHER’ is my response. I take back everything I said. It’s no longer about us, or me. It’s about you. During the writing process of this album, I became more myself than ever. It’s a more raw and confident me. I found new influences sonically, and I finally learned how to have fun making music again. I focused on more energy-driven elements of music production: live drums, saturation, and a bit of yelling. ‘CRUSHER’ is a word that describes something or someone that ‘crushes’ – in my case, it was the aforementioned person who crushed me…lol. It felt right to be front and center visually to support the music, instead of putting the music in front of me like I feel I’ve done in the past. We took the picture [on the album artwork] in front of a literal rock crusher – metaphors involving a complex and deliberate mechanism to systematically crush the literal ‘unbreakable’ ensue… It felt quite appropriate.”
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