kerri's 'HURTING' Is a Project Rife With Fresh Wounds and Lessons Gained
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Following the February release of his EP BUNNYHUG, kerri strips off even more layers in HURTING, a vulnerable experimental R&B project centered on the becoming that can only be born from the unbecoming.
Moody and pensive, the Canadian singer-songwriter sings with a potency difficult to dilute. From guitar-driven melodies to lyrics that build deep emotional narratives, he has the ability to make you feel his fresh wounds while still being pacified by his music’s weightlessness.
An ode to the healing alchemized from rupture, kerri shares that HURTING is a “powerful reminder to learn from the pain you've experienced, not dwell in it. It paints the picture of someone afraid of the world and angry at themselves who learns over the course of these songs to have faith.” The EP stands as a soundtrack for anyone surviving the uphill battle of their waning emotions, whether it’s the haunting of old memories or feeling the void of what was once noise. As he stares back in reflection, kerri offers HURTING as the wisely earned reminder that it would all be in vain if life was explicitly what happened for us and not to us.
The project’s lead single “Cinnamon Tips” is a somber ballad that compares a lingering cigarette smell of the ghost of lovers long gone, while its final title track, deeply enthralling and cathartic, is “one last look back at the loneliest corner of someone's mind before choosing a life of clarity.”
Having landed placements on Amazon Music’s “Breakthrough R&B,” “Fresh R&B” and “Brand New Music” editorial playlists, as well as a sync placement on Peacock's Bel Air, kerri is forwarding a baton artists like Majid Jordan and Frank Ocean have passed. Raw lyricism, layered soundscapes, and art earned from life lived both messy and passionately.
Listen to HURTING below:
