By New Wave Editorial 
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jess Kerber has shared the title track from her upcoming album, The World Is Dark, But I Want It To Be Funny, featuring Emily Hines. The song arrives one day before the full record is released, according to the report from Stereogum-style coverage of the announcement.
A final preview before release
The album is due out on 11/6 via Felte. Before this latest release, Kerber had already put out two singles from the project, “Changing” and “Louisiana Song,” both described as evocative. The title track is the latest preview of the collection.
A live studio video for “The World Is Dark, But I Want It To Be Funny” accompanies the release, giving listeners a look at the performance of the song with Hines.
Kerber on finding humor in hard moments
Kerber explained that the song grew out of a realization about how she copes with difficult circumstances. She said that each time she has tried to find humor, or to focus on the casual routines of daily life during a bad situation, it has helped her accept the larger picture.
She was careful to add a caveat. “That’s not to say that low moments have to be intellectualized or not validated,” Kerber said. She pointed to the current moment, in which many aspects of humanity are being challenged, as a reason to look inward and find more creative ways to recover. “As much as darkness is an inevitability, so is all of the lightness,” she said.
What to know
The title track pairs Kerber with Emily Hines and carries the same sentiment as the album’s name, balancing an acknowledgment of bleakness with a push toward levity. With the earlier singles “Changing” and “Louisiana Song” already out, the full album gives listeners the complete picture of the project when it lands tomorrow.
The World Is Dark, But I Want It To Be Funny is released on Felte on 11/6. The details above were reported by the music outlet that first shared the news of the single and video.
Source: stereogum.com
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