Jane Inc. the project of multi-artist Carlyn Bezic (U.S. Girls, Ice Cream) announces her new album, A Rupture A Canyon A Birth,  will drop on October 17th via Telephone Explosion Records. Ahead of the LP’s arrival, the artist has shared  lead single/video, “elastic.” The album was written in the aftermath of a car accident, a vocal cord cancer diagnosis, and a breakup.

Of the song’s accompanying video, Bezic comments: “They say a song is a fixed number of minutes and seconds but it never feels that way. Had to make this video to prove it.”

In a way, A Rupture A Canyon A Birth was born in April 2023 on a stretch of Massachusetts highway, when a semi-truck slammed into the broken-down tour van holding Bezic and five other musicians. Somewhat miraculously, no one died. While waiting in the tow lot, Bezic and her tourmates, battered but vibrating with adrenaline, decided the show must go on. For the rest of that tour opening for U.S. Girls, she performed with newfound abandon. In a single, shattering instant, she’d catapulted past some spiritual point of no return. It wouldn’t be the last.

Bezic returned home, broke off her relationship of nearly a decade, and decided to see a doctor about a persistent raspiness in her voice that didn’t seem to be improving. Exactly a year and a day after the crash, she was diagnosed with stage one cancer on her left vocal cord. By the end of that summer she’d undergone two successful surgeries that left her voice intact, but came with a serious caveat: there is a significant possibility of regrowth, and close monitoring is essential. Inspired by these life altering events, A Rupture A Canyon A Birth reminds us that whatever holds our lives together is under no obligation to remain solid. There are no guarantees.

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. Today’s single, “elastic,” “was inspired by performing in the aftermath of the car accident,” Bezic explains. “The experience unlocked something for me, and I felt I could perform with more freedom and abandon than ever before. Here I imagine the audience as a lover, and under their gaze, life is filled with pure Dionysian possibility: an unrolling and malleable series of nows.”

Jane Inc.
A Rupture A Canyon A Birth
Tracklist
Telephone Explosion

1. reborn (on the dancefloor)
2. elastic
3. freefall
4. keeping it with me
5. the braid
6. i’m alive!!!
7. continents shift
8. levelled
9. what if
10. drumheller

Pre-order A Rupture A Canyon A Birth by Jane Inc. HERE