Collectively, we’re exhausted. We’re either boiling over with fury or scrolling ourselves into numbness, shrugging shoulders and covering our eyes from any encroaching apocalypse. Not grandson . Jordan Benjamin is refusing and resisting in a louder, heavier fashion than ever, turning away from the more personal tones of 2023’s I Love You I’m Trying to give a white-hot reading of the riot act to the people in power upholding the systems that are suffocating us. Disenchanted he may be, but he will not be resigned to defeat.

Jordan’s properly sharpened his blades for his third album, recording exclusively with live instruments for the first time, and it makes all the difference. His tones are bristling and muscular, placing him firmly as part of a dynasty of musical rebels armed with a gui

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