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Joh Chase’s Charming Folk Pop Single “When I Got This Place” is a Song About Being Content With Where You Are in Your Head and on the Planet

Joh Chase drives down the surprisingly un-glamorous streets of daytime Los Angeles in the video for “When I Got This Place” and it serves as a perfect companion to the song’s lyrics. The spare and lively guitar work and Chase’s intimate and immediately engaging vocals deliver a song that seems to be about what it’s like to move to a place that’s supposed to mean so much more to so many people and a place many people go to make their dreams come true only to find that it’s often a lot different than some romanticized vision from film and television. But Chase’s song isn’t about disillusionment, it’s about coming to appreciate where you are geographically and in life. And to manage expectations and accept things as they are. Perhaps even to appreciate the uniqueness of where you find yourself and its unique charms. Chase’s song is an uplifting and finely crafted pop song filled with a gentle spirit and sense of acceptance that isn’t common enough in music at the moment. Watch the video for “When I Got This Place” on YouTube and follow Joh Chase at the links below. Chase’s album SOLO dropped on April 26, 2024 via Kill Rock Stars.

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Joh Chase Leans Into Life’s Shifting Circumstances in the Introspective and Spirited Indie Pop Song “Gone”

Joh Chase’s songs from the forthcoming album SOLO (due April 26, 2024 via Kill Rock Stars) each seem to have their own personality and style but all informed by a poetic outlook and personal insight into life’s transitional moments. The single “Gone” finds the melody centered around Chase’s expressive vocals and words that seem to come from a moment when maybe you feel like you’ve run out of luck (“Gone, my four-leaf clover”) and left to your own devices by former partners and even your dog, for now. Chase seems to accept the latter in stride because the dog will find her way home and our narrator in the words “And I’m gone with the wind, now,” leaning into circumstance rather than bemoaning it because so much is transitory and sometimes these changes are the best course for your life whether you are completely aware of it or not. The note struck by the end of the song is one of triumph and exulting in the moment. The minimal, rhythmic guitar work and drums flow where Chase guides them with their introspective and spirited moments lending the song an organic feel like you’re with Chase in accepting an intuitive approach to what might otherwise be more challenging times in one’s life. Watch the video for “Gone” on YouTube and follow Chase at the links provided.

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Joh Chase Shows Us How to Experience Joy in the Acceptance in the Impermanence of All Things and the Thrill of Genuine Connection on “Risking It With You”

Joh Chase poignantly expresses a deep appreciation for the impermanence of so many things in our lives in the spare composition of “Risking It With You.” In emotionally raw and vulnerable vocals and minimal, slightly distorted guitar we hear in Chase’s song the importance of being devoted to what makes our lives feel enriched by our connection with one another and the people we dare to love however long that bond lasts on either side of that connection. In the music video we see Chase looking into the camera with a variety of backgrounds seeming so serious until the end when they break into a smile as the song concludes. It is simply an arresting song about how we can’t control everything in our own lives much less that of other people and we have to be comfortable with this fact in order to live a rich existence that benefits from not being too attached to circumstances beyond our ability to predict or fully influence. But that’s one of the things that makes life feel so vital and there’s a freedom in not being too tied to what we think we need and who we think we are on our own or in partnership with anyone no matter how that partnership lasts. But the closing line of the choruses, “But something I know for sure: I’m devoted to risking it with you” honors those moments of romance and connection that you can share with someone for the duration and exult in that joy without a need for control. Watch the video for “Risking It With You” on YouTube and follow Joh Chase at the links below. Look for the new Joh Chase album in 2024 via Kill Rock Stars.