This masterpiece “Love Blind” by Jon Reynolds & The Aches is going to be on repeat for a long time! Jon has so much talent and he has one of the best soaring and charming voices we have ever heard in our lives. His new single “Love Blind” is so emotional and we are totally hooked on it. The lyrics are catchy and well written and the chorus is so wonderful. Jon’s vocal performance is professional which definitely shows how talented he is. The production work is polished and the melodies are beautiful. This song was definitely a great and unique experience for our team!
WHAT THE ARTIST SAYS ABOUT THIS SONG:
“For me, every project has its end mark: the last creative expression that lets me know the work is completed. Originally, my Petrichor EP was four songs, but I never had the end mark. There were moments in late 2019 when I had a glimpse of it, but I never really felt resolved until I wrote “Love Blind”. It was the first song I wrote after the pandemic shut everything down. I was discovering how much I had compressed myself in order to maintain the work schedule I had volunteered for over the last two years. I was finding my voice again. I was connecting the artist back to the art. “Love Blind” was born out of that reconnection. As I allowed my mind to rest, memory- and the emotion associated with that memory- came back to me. I was able to connect more personally to my own experiences which led more granular lyrics.
It’s not another heartbreak song. It is a commentary looking back on what the first heartbreak creates in a person, and the undeniable truth that you are permanently changed after experiencing it. I chose the analogy of a virus; though, I never actually say the word while writing it.
Yes, we recover.
Yes, we learn from our mistakes.
Yes, we can find love again.
But, once you have learned that trusting another person with your emotional stability can lead to disaster, a layer of caution tape goes up around every potential future relationship. And, as with all barriers, it is far more difficult to see what is on the other side of them. It blinds you a little.
I am lucky to have found a person who I don’t need any tape with. In fact, she pushed me to rewrite lyrics, to apply my rediscovered self and adjust my work now, not later. I definitely know that “Love Blind” is my final punctuation on Petrichor.
It embodies the sound, the expression, the medicine, and the words that are part of me.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
“It’s been a year and a half since I last released music. But the truth is, everything I have released has been a filtered version of myself: until now,” says Jon Reynolds, creative mastermind behind Nashville band Jon Reynolds & The Aches. “I spent a lot of my 20s trying to not let personal flaws seep into my art which – in my mind – would turn the work into an unfit subspecies of what could have been if I had only found the ‘right’ pieces. I was wrong- call it self-doubt or fear. But, the understanding I have come to is if I try to fill in every area I am deficient in, I leave no room for originality.”
Reynolds endured a near-suffocating journey from realizing to actively pouring his whole self – flaws and all – into the music to discover that unifying factor, that unique feeling, that vibrance that makes a song turn into medicine. He needed that medicine. Up until the pandemic ground everything to halt, Reynolds recalls his grueling 70 hour/week work schedule and realized he was grasping onto a straw version of his creative self. Interestingly, this period of pause gave him a way out: an opportunity to revitalize. The final touches came together. His overall vision came into focus.
The songs born from this time of renewal, songs that preserved him while he was lost in a cycle of excessive work and distraction, are the foundation that existed when he finally came back to his authentic self. Reynolds decided to call this EP Petrichor, the smell of earth after rain breaks a long drought.
Now, they are the representation of who he is: each one is grounded – they never feel unfamiliar. Each song reaches an ethereal, almost larger than life- soundscape, giving the active listener plenty to explore. The lyrics touch on everything from depression to breaking out of a life that you were never meant for.
