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PREMIERE: Zach Vinson – “Our Love Is Whatever”

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Zach Vinson is thankful he’s not releasing a break-up album. That certainly could’ve been the
case. Come to think of it, he’s thankful he’s not releasing a falling-in-love album either. Those
two pillars of pop music (and the human experience) exist for good reason. But Vinson’s latest
album, And Yet, explores less-charted relationship ground: What does it look like to stay in love,
to stick it out when it would be easier to throw in the towel?

And Yet will be released April 26 via Honey and Milk Music, and we’re thrilled to premiere his new track “Our Love Is Whatever” today on GroundSounds! The track is a deeply touching Americana-style showcase of stunning vocals and personal lyricism.
 
In his own words:

For some of us, it’s easy to be overly optimistic about love. I certainly was. My wife and I were young and naive when we got married. I knew a lot of marriages fall apart, but I always thought, Not us. That’ll never happen to us. It took me years to realize that what I thought was resolve was really just dumb pride.

It took some real white knuckle, cliffhanger moments for me to realize that there was nothing special about us, nothing innate in our love to keep us from ending up with separate addresses. It was in one of those moments that I wrote “Our Love Is Whatever.”

When I finished the song, it felt like the saddest, heaviest thing I had ever written. And that might be true. But the more I sing it, the more it feels subtly hopeful, oddly enough. There may not be anything special about our marriage compared to the next couple’s, but I don’t think that was ever meant to be the goal. The reality is that we’re hanging in there when we could have called it quits, and I think that’s pretty cool.

Stream the track below and be sure to connect on socials for more!

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