Jane Inc. – freefall

Jane Inc.—the solo project of Toronto-based musician Carlyn Bezic (U.S. Girls, Ice Cream)—releases “freefall,” the second single/video from her new album, A RUPTURE A CANYON A BIRTH, out October 17th via Telephone Explosion Records.

Following the “bouncy, synthy” (Brooklyn Vegan) “elastic,” “freefall” finds Bezic making tender revelations in the wake of splintering, life-altering events: “I cried when I realized it’s not an obstacle to pass/ It’s not a pause in the journey/ The fall is the path.”

Commenting on the song, Bezic says, “We’re moving down a road at different speeds. Sometimes on that journey we encounter an unavoidable chasm. In this song I choose to run toward it, embrace it, and let the canyon swallow me whole, because it’s the only way through.”

A RUPTURE A CANYON A BIRTH has a pulse rendered by the insistent self-possession that comes from being repeatedly and forcibly reminded of your own mortality. Written in the aftermath of a car accident, a vocal cord cancer diagnosis, and a breakup, it presents a journey about fragility, mortality, chance, clarity through collapse, and the erotic energy that can come in moments of deep stabilization. The more esoteric art-pop of Jane Inc. records past—2021’s Number One and 2022’s Faster Than I Can Make—has given itself over to a beat-forward, ‘80s disco shimmer because it had to; Bezic’s only way through this was across the surface of a dancefloor and a stage.

So what is a girl to do with a near-death experience? Not dying was the easy part. The rupture, the canyon, and the (re)birth was the real work. Produced by Bezic and Edwin de Goeij (U.S. Girls, Martha Wainwright), A RUPTURE A CANYON A BIRTH is a synth-pop record with its own interior momentum. It is a concept album the same way death is a concept until it’s hurtling toward you at 65 MPH, or the way love is a concept until one day it takes the exact shape of someone else’s hands. Bezic is often singing about the loftiest of subjects, but losing yourself in the wordless physical ecstasy of the beat is the point.

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