Jakob The Liarโs debut EP Wake Up Mr. Kupferberg kicks down the door with a poetโs soul and a revolutionaryโs urgency. Across six tracks, Jakob Kupferberg stitches together existential grief, spiritual awakenings, and political firestorms. This is a man whoโs lived many lives, and in these songs, heโs distilled the chaos into clarity.
The title track โWake Up Mr. Kupferbergโ opens like a public service announcement from a dream as crystalline soundscapes wrap around spoken-word urgency, while airport-like echoes in the background hint at a liminal space between departure and awakening.โSunchildโ follows the opener where Jakob hits a rare note of intimate transcendence. When he sings his imperfections down to ask, โso would you marry me for that?โ, it lands like a bittersweet punch to the chest. That line alone holds a hundred late-night questions about worth, love, and being seen in your full imperfection.
โA Song Like Youโ brings warmth and wild devotion, drenched in shimmering guitars and whispered intentions. Itโs Jakob at his most optimistic self, in a cinematic climax of bustling drums and blazing sound. The whispered opener, โThey are not ready for it,โ is a sly self-reference, because truly, most people arenโt ready for a project this emotionally raw and sonically bold.
Wake Up Mr. Kupferberg introduces an artist who refuses to separate the personal from the political, the poetic from the visceral. Stay tuned with Jakob The Liar for his upcoming LP The Great Awakening.
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Review by: Naomi Joan