Crafting Soulful Storytelling

Sean Bertram’s Everything Again is an album about cycles: endings that give way to beginnings, sorrow that folds into joy, memory that lingers even as new love blooms.

What distinguishes the record is not simply its autobiographical candour, but the grace with which Bertram navigates these emotional passages. He draws on the harmonic sophistication of Michael McDonald, the funk-driven fluidity of Prince, and the melodic immediacy of pop classicism, yet shapes these influences into a sound unmistakably his own.

Each track is meticulously crafted, yet the record never feels overworked. Instead, Bertram allows space for intimacy—the pause between chords, the breath before a lyric. His rendition of “God Only Knows” is a study in reverence, stripping the song to its essence and rebuilding it with a quiet, contemporary tenderness.

In an era saturated with hurried production, Everything Again stands as a patient, resonant work of art: modern soul imbued with timeless humanity.

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