Album Review: Jeremy Zucker’s declares “love is not dying”
Ahh,yesss! Another artist with low-cap, titled songs singing to woes and whims of being young, hopeful, and loving in THIS world. From pandemics to social media, I don’t know what generation of teens and twenty-somethings had it harder: us or those tweens that lived in the Crucible era. Probably, the ones that were hanging around The Crusades. YIKES! Either way, Jeremy Zucker joins a list of TALENTED, young artists that sing to the new, recurring theme of Pop music. Now, “poppers” don’t simply want love…. they want deep connection, and Zucker’s debut, love is not dying, makes it.
Like Conan Gray, Isaac Dunbar, Julia Michaels, and Chelsea Cutler, Zucker is rising in the entertainment world with a, seemingly, preemptive fanbase. It is hard to believe love is not dying is his debut because his name feels so prevalent. His first record is premiering already to a group of fans that see Zucker as a frustrated optimist; a young man with a voice that leavens like bread and lyrically asks why the world can’t just submit to Love. From “somebody loves u” to “we’re fucked, it’s fine,” he seems to be asking a billions iterations of this one question; making himself appear like the literal voice for listeners asking the same.
Jeremy Zucker – always, i’ll care (Lyric Video)
Whether stringed or synth-waved, Zucker’s arrangements feel laced with romantic melodrama, even though they are, in essence, simple. The result is a sound as addicting as a Korean soap opera. You want to grab the popcorn, soda, and blankie and listen to his songs as if you can visually watch the premise; two lovebirds chasing forward and away their desires and never quite meeting enough, in life, to make their love constant. Isn’t that the premise of every youthful soap, and I have to say I eat it up like a Netflix rom-com. It is hard not to because there is something irrevocably sweet and banal to Zucker’s voice and lyrics.Jeremy Zucker – not ur friend (Official Video)
Vocally, Zucker billows notes like a cloud building itself in weigh only to find it will always be light. He does not simply float through notes as much as he hazes through them to keep an element of starriness in how he annotates his verses. After all, if you are going to say love is not dying in 2020, then you have to go above and beyond, in atmosphere, to emote such a twinkled hope. Jeremy Zucker does, which is why fans will love his new album, and, on April 17, his base will grow even more. To Buy love is not dying on April 17, Click Here.
