Jerry Paper is the project of Lucas Nathan, the multi-artist has collaborated with Weyes Blood, Mild High Club, Kari Faux, and Tyler, The Creator and more. But after a grueling 6-week tour and a “cartoonishly large bag of psilocybin mushrooms” in the Tucson desert, Nathan realized that though they were having fun, constant touring wasn’t a recipe for a wholegrain life after all.

Where Jerry Paper’s last album Free Time celebrated the freedom of integrating their nonbinariness, on their forthcoming album INBETWEEZER they embrace their multidimensionality, explore the complicated feelings of in-between-ness and learn to accept change.

The “Moonstruck” video by Fantastic 3d Creation calls back to Jerry Paper’s experiences in Arizona: a cartoon version of them bathes in a flying inflatable pool while crossing a moonlit desert, and eventually learns to accept themselves as they turn into a beautiful flower. INBETWEEZER drops on September 27th via Stones Throw Records. Join Jerry Paper this fall on tour in the US to worship at the altar of everything in the middle of the beginning and the end.

Jerry Paper on “Moonstruck:”

“This one I wrote right after I got home from a 6 week long tour where we only really had two days off… it was a harsh dose of touring but honestly one of the most transformative of my life because I was more present than I’d ever been on tour… less in the numbing-zone and more in the feeling-understanding zone. I was also really loving all my bandmates and the last couple weeks of tour were really fun despite exhaustion; we had two particularly enjoyable experiences that stuck vividly in my mind around the full moon (and a cartoonishly large bag of psilocybin mushrooms) in Tucson (nude in a pool) and Marfa (swinging a big knife) so this little rocker just popped out of me pretty much right when I got home. This song is contextually interesting for me because immediately when I got home from tour I knew something big in my life had to change (which eventually led me to grad school and the life-expansion of becoming a therapist), so this is kind of a meditation on joy even while the earth is shifting beneath you.”

Jerry Paper
INBETWEEZER
Tracklist
Stones Throw Records

Brown Thumb
Scenic Route
Front Ear (My Bread)
Moonstruck
New Year’s Day
Everything Angel
In Betwee
Trixter Sez
A Song On The Tip Of My Mind
Powder Pink Powder Green

Jerry Paper 2024 Tour Dates

11 Oct – Los Angeles – Teragram Ballroom
17 Oct – San Diego – Soda Bar
23 Oct – Seattle – Madame Lou’s
24 Oct – Portland – Polaris Hall
27 Oct – San Francisco – Rickshaw Stop
2 Nov – Brooklyn – Brooklyn Made

pre-order INBETWEEZER HERE