JP Saxe desires to make his accomplice really feel “Secure” on his new single.
Multi-platinum grasp storyteller JP Saxe releases “Secure”, a sweetly quiet however subtly sticky new single out through Arista Information.
The R&B-kissed pop observe is the multi-platinum GRAMMY®-nominated singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist’s first new solo music in additional than a 12 months, since Saxe hit the street in late 2023 in help of John Mayer’s enviornment tour then saved going deep into 2024 on his personal sold-out, globe-spanning, headlining run.
Not too way back, JP premiered the music reside at what would have been a single launch present at New York’s Bowery Ballroom that he as a substitute remodeled right into a NY For LA profit present elevating cash for these affected by the Los Angeles wildfires.
He was joined by pals Allison Ponthier, Ally Salort, Elliot Skinner, and Kristiane.
“Secure” is extra beat-based than Saxe’s most up-to-date singles, making a mellow temper out of a reversed soul pattern, bent synth tones, shimmering keys, and crunchy drums.
However our host delivers his signature combine of non-public reflection and humorous wit all the identical: “By no means wanted a sword, by no means wanted a defend / By no means stormed a fortress on a battlefield / Haven’t wanted a fist since since third interval fitness center / Jeremy Copeland, truthfully fuck that child.”
Quickly, it’s clear that the battle he faces is a extra refined one: studying to make his accomplice really feel emotionally protected.
On his first launch since 2023, JP shares:
“It’s an odd feeling to be dropping a music about what it means to guard the individuals we love on this explicit week. I assume we don’t actually get to determine what our songs are about. I believed it was about emotional security — in regards to the masculine urge to guard with combating earlier than listening, and relearning what it actually means to make the individuals we love really feel safe round us. Proper now it appears like ‘hey checking on you’ texts and donations to the GoFundMe’s of our pals who’ve misplaced their houses and voting for environmental safety insurance policies and towards the leaders who oppose them. ‘I wish to make you’re feeling protected’ appears like, ‘come over keep so long as you’d like.’ I’ve a love/hate relationship with the best way songs intertwine their method into the scariest components of our lives. I simply hope this one can lovingly contribute to our conversations about how we’re all looking for one another.”
The comforting lower reunites Saxe with GRAMMY®-winning songwriter/producer Malay (Frank Ocean, FLECTHER, Lorde).
The pair labored collectively intently on Saxe’s final album, 2023’s ‘A Grey Space’, which included the groove-steeped, John Mayer-featuring “I Don’t Miss You”, plus collaborations with the likes of five-time Latin GRAMMY® successful Colombian musician Camilo, folk-pop trio Tiny Habits, and singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine.
The set garnered reward from many main media retailers.
By brazenly exploring his deepest ideas, anxieties, and feelings, Saxe shares his most relatable music set so far.
Final 12 months, after canvassing North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia on his “A Gray Space World Tour”, Saxe shared a pair of efficiency albums: ‘A Gray Space (Stay Classes)’ — that includes acclaimed visitor instrumentalists like Cory Henry and Tal Wilkenfeld — and ‘Stay on Stage’, recordings from his current excursions that included a shifting solo model of his late 2019 blockbuster, “If the World Was Ending”.
Keep tuned for extra music from JP Saxe in 2025.
About JP Saxe:
The Toronto-born, L.A.-based multi-platinum singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist JP Saxe has mastered the artwork of not holding again.
He lets his phrases spill out in a method that feels uncooked and frank, whereas subtly shaping that extremely detailed stream of consciousness into one thing that resonates universally.
His music performs an analogous trick, displaying the indicators of prodigious expertise however happening straightforward — a mixture of hi-fi bed room pop, piano balladry, breezy soul, and conversational R&B that shifts to satisfy each emotion.
All of which explains how he quietly grew to become a pop phenom, amassing over 3 billion streams and spending a lot of 2024 crisscrossing 4 continents through his sold-out headlining tour and (earlier than that) opening for shut collaborator John Mayer.
Saxe’s slow-burn rise started with 2019’s sadly prescient “If the World Was Ending”.
The intimate, Finneas-produced Julia Michaels duet grew to become what Apple Music referred to as “the pre-eminent love music of the pandemic”, incomes 4X Platinum standing, a Tune of the Yr GRAMMY® nod in 2021, and a Breakthrough Artist of the Yr JUNO for Saxe.
He shortly adopted along with his debut album, the playfully however precisely titled ‘Harmful Ranges of Introspection’, that includes acclaimed singles with Maren Morris and Mayer.
The latter returned for 2023’s ‘A Gray Space’, a sophomore set that discovered Saxe honing his extremely expressive sound and heart-on-sleeve meets tongue-in-cheek method, to not point out persevering with a hanging run of TV performances.
Final 12 months, he launched ‘A Gray Space (Stay Classes)’ and ‘Stay on Stage’ — love letters to the followers who pack each room he performs.
In 2025, Saxe rewards us all with new music.
JP Saxe’s “Secure” observe can be out there now to stream and cop on all main digital streaming platforms
