Stream: Nite Jewel, ‘On Your Own’

Daiana Feuer on June 1st, 2018

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Ramona Gonzalez aims to combat the “inescapable nihilistic spirals” plaguing her when she confronts today’s cultural climate by harnessing her philosophical views into funky R&B dance music about letting go. “What if there were some sort of transcendence that could emerge from coming face to face with the debased nature of humanity and its inevitable, narcissistic self-destruction?” she says, speaking of her new Nite Jewel single, “On Your Own.” Released today on her Gloriette Records imprint, the home of her last two albums — 2017’s “Real High” and 2016’s “Liquid Cool” — since breaking with a bigger label in favor of retaining creative control. Backed with the track “The Jokes On You,” this new single prescribes an antidote to trying to understand “reality.” “Not to be confused with hope in some pseudo-religious promise of a better world,” she explains, “but the letting go of one’s tight grasp of a cogent reality, a formula that makes sense, the perceived anthropomorphic center of the universe? I find something freeing in that possibility; looking outward instead of inward, reveling in something that no longer includes the premise of the self.” So, leave your “self” on the shelf and have a little existential dance party. You’ll feel better in the morning.

||| Stream: “On Your Own” / “The Jokes On You”