“Book Cover” by Ber

“Book Cover" by Ber is Northern Transmissions is Northern Transmissions Song of the Day. The track is off her LP Good, Like It Should Be
Ber photo by Tom Thornton

Singer/songwriter Ber will release her debut album Good, Like It Should Be, on April 3, via Nettwerk records. Ahead of the album’s release the artist has shared her deeply emotional single “Book Cover.” The track follows previous singles “Who’s This” and “Good, Real.”

I remember when I wrote it, I just started crying,” Ber says. “Because all of a sudden I had this image of how it felt to be really overlooked as a person. I wrote it before I’d met my boyfriend, when I was really lonely and felt like I couldn’t get anywhere in the UK, and no one would take me seriously.”

Good, Like It Should Be was primarily written in Pepin, Wisconsin and Minneapolis alongside frequent collaborators Rob Milton (Holly Humberstone, The 1975) and Bradley Hale (Now, Now), the album moves fluidly from shimmering alt-pop to country-leaning warmth. Each track feels like a snapshot of Ber learning to trust her happiness, embrace love without hesitation, and step into the most grounded version of herself yet.In naming her debut, Ber returned again and again to the album’s closing acoustic ballad, ultimately letting that song point her toward the project’s core truth.

“It took me a really long time to figure out what the album was going to be called and what the track listing was going to be,” she explains. “I weirdly found myself in this place where we had too many songs, which was a blessing and a curse. Every time I would make any iteration of the album track list, it all centered around that song, not because I thought it was going to be some massive hit. But I just love it, and it feels really true. That was always my goal with making an album — for things to feel true.”

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