For those not in the know, Jann Klose’s forthcoming studio album Surrender is due for release March 3rd, 2023, and he has already admitted that he was blown away by some of the incredible people involved with the album: Surrender was created under the most unusual of circumstances. We were dealing with a global pandemic and a complete shutdown of music venues and recording studios.

My co-writer for more than half the album, Alex Forbes and I got together bi-weekly at her apartment in Manhattan and poured our souls into the songs during the strangest of times. Producer Marcus Dembinski and I worked in person at our home studios in Manhattan and Queens, then started adding live instruments at Studio G Brooklyn with engineer Cyril Putzer when it became possible.

A lot of recording was done remotely. Max Sternlicht, who played all the great bass lines you hear on most of the record, and I, as of this writing, still haven’t met! Dimitris Menexopoulos recorded his Cretan Lyra in Greece, and Ben Kesler mastered Surrender in St. Louis, MO.

1. Surrender
2. Sugar My
3. Pilot Light
4. Love You the Most (Acoustic)
5. Do You Want to Be Lonely
6. Flesh and Blood
7. All the Way Down
8. Here in My Heart
9. Stay the Same
10. Even If it Takes a Lifetime

This free flowing, ambient and wholly embracing new album opens on the joyously euphoric title track Surrender and the immovable pop stance of Sugar My and then we are brought forth a Jason Mraz-esque Pilot Light, a quite stunning, harmonically aural Love You the Most (featuring Alicia Madison) and the rhythmical, layered percussion within Do You Want to Be Lonely.

The rapturous buoyancy of the pop-laden Flesh and Blood then gives way to the forthright All the Way Down and they are in turn backed by the boy band-imbued Here in My Heart, the album rounding out on the Queens-based musician’s strummed mid-tempo balladry of Stay the Same, closing on the textured Spector Sound within Even If it Takes a Lifetime.

Jann Klose - Surrender [Official Lyric Video]

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