Ears Wide Open: Jerry Paper

Daiana Feuer on August 8th, 2018

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Lucas Nathan, aka Jerry Paper, sings with his whole face. Every muscle scrunches, pushing skin up around his thick-rimmed glasses as he emits passionate sounds with awkward finesse. Much like his loungey pop music, it’s bizarrely charming. The L.A. native spent some time in New York and released quite a few albums, before moving back home, and he wrote an album inspired by everything the transition brought with it, including “the endless human cycle of desire and satisfaction.” The album, “Like A Baby,” comes out Oct. 12 via Stones Throw Records, and was co-produced by Nathan and Matty Tavares of Badbadnotgood. Some guests make appearances, including Charlotte Day Wilson, Mild High Club’s Alex Brettin, and Natalie Mering of Weyes Blood, who lends her buttery voice to the second single he’s shared so far, “Grey Area.” Anchored by pretty doo-doo-doo’s, it’s “a song about the incessant feeling of being in-between,” says Nathan. “I find myself waiting for stability, waiting for THE moment, and all I ever really feel is that I am living inside continual transitions. The song explores the discomfort of life as process.” Nathan opted to keep the space-bar-pause-button sound indicating the end of the song, perhaps to just bring the listener back down from the clouds.

||| Stream: “Grey Area”