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Luke Montgomery • March 29, 2022

Jonah Kagen

Trying something new this week with a music review. It seems like two months ago, one of Jonah Kagen's songs, Drowning, was in my Apple Music Recommended—yes, I know it's a hot take, but I use Apple Music, not Spotify (because it's better)—but that's a conversation for another day. His music resonated with me and I have probably played his songs hundreds of times over the past couple of months.

Fast forward to two weeks ago, I was shooting a concert for Maisie Peters at the Cambridge Room. That was exciting in itself because I knew her from songs like Favourite Ex and Feels Like This. She was performing her new album You Signed Up For This which will put you in your feels big time. Anyways, the night before the concert I realized that the opening artist was none other than—Jonah Kagen.

I guess you could say I was a little excited. I do my best to only shoot concerts for artists whose music I enjoy, so this was a huge victory to be shooting for two artists whose music I was a massive fan of.

As the stage lit up, Jonah won over the crowd as soon as he walked onto the stage and then smashed his set from start to finish. 10/10 would go see him in concert again. Crazily, it was his first tour, but he had so much charisma on stage that no one would have suspected it if he hadn't said so. As his set came to an end he announced that his new single, Turbulence, was dropping that night.

Turbulence is an amazing song—add it to your sad boi or girl playlists. But, if I were to rank my top five songs of his they would be as follows:

Broken
Moon
Drowning
Turbulence
Catching A Dream

Shout-out to Moon. Even though I have it at #2 it is so good on a late-night drive with the windows down. Each of his songs does an amazing job of telling a story as his rhyme and wordplay pull the listener in as the best artists do. I really can't wait to see what this guy puts out next (hopefully an album soon).

Well, that's it for this week—short and sweet—go check out his music and let me know what you think!

I'll be in College Station with Surfaces this weekend! Pull up to Island Party if you can!

-Luke

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