- 2025-04-21
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MUSIC
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JP Saxe Releases Two Part Album Part One “Articulate Excuses”
Canadian singer-songwriter JP Saxe released a new mini album “Articulate Excuses”, part one of a two-part album on April 18, 2025 via Arista Records.
After writing and recording the album and feeling like there were two distinct themes to the songs, he decided to present the album in two parts.
The mini album comprises 8 songs, produced by JP Saxe and Malay. It pulls from a period in which JP Saxe worked to come to terms with his patterns and personhood thus far.
JP Saxe said of the mini album, “Articulate Excuses is about 7 different things. It's about hiding from myself, it's about apologizing for myself, it's about relearning a masculine version of myself, it's about nostalgia for the present, it's about grief, it's about re-finding the parts of myself I didn't think I was allowed to be, and it's about owning the parts of myself that I'm ashamed of.”- He explained the reason for making the two-part album, “90% for creative reasons and 10% because of the pragmatism of navigating people's increasingly nonexistent attention spans. I love my music so much and even l have trouble listening to 14 in a row. So how could I expect someone else to?”
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JP Saxe explained about some tracks for the mini album.
“SMARTPHONE MAKE ME DUMB”
“I hate how much time I spend 'off'. Prob my least favorite part of myself is how impulsively I distract myself from myself. It's just so fucking contrary to how desperate I am to feel alive. This song, like all of my songs, is not an answer or a solution or a suggestion. It's just a replication of a feeling. The feeling of hiding from myself by drowning my brain in social media and alcohol and sex and plans anything other than the terrifying company of my own thoughts. Consciousness is exhausting. Staring at hot strangers and whales and hydraulic smushed crayons for 5 seconds at a time on your phone is way easier. So is poison-induced vulnerability (alcohol) and disconnection masked as connection (flippant sex). Sure, maybe our brains are slowly rotting, but at least we're not burdened by the stress of aliveness.”
“I WANNA MOVE TO BROOKLYN”
“Sometimes the life you fantasize about can be in direct conflict with the life others fantasize about you sharing with them. Sometimes that life is in Brooklyn pretending to be Patti Smith drinking too many coffees in too many bookstore cafes.”
“SAFE”
“It's a strange feeling to be dropping a song about what it means to protect the people we love on this particular week. I guess we don't really get to decide what our songs are about. I thought it was about emotional safety - about the masculine urge to protect with fighting before listening, and relearning what it really means to make the people we love feel secure around us. Right now it feels like 'hey checking on you' texts and donations to the gofundme's of our friends who've lost their homes and voting for environmental protection policies and against the leaders who oppose them. 'I want to make you feel safe' feels like, 'come over stay as long as you'd like.' I have a love/hate relationship with the way songs intertwine their way into the scariest parts of our lives. I just hope this one can lovingly contribute to our conversations about how we're all looking out for each other.” - source : Apple Music
