CJ SOLAR

                                                              "Coming Around" 

                                                              Raining Bacon Records

With the release of his first full-length album The Future’s Neon coming up on August 5, 2022, coupled with the tremendous amount of buzz that’s surrounding the song releases ahead of it - “The Future’s Neon,” “Hungover Enough,” and “All I Can Think About Lately” - CJ Solar has put himself in perfect position to strike upon the album’s release. 

He now returns with one last teaser ahead of the album, “Coming Around.”

The song, co-written by CJ with Corey Crowder and Michael Hardy, leans into a mostly softer pace through the verses, but is also smart enough to retain his signature style as it tilts toward a southern rock edge that blends perfectly into what’s happening at modern country radio today.

“I’m getting used to facing the cold hard truth,” Solar sings in the second line of the opening verse as he sets the struggle of moving on from a tough breakup in motion, while in many ways facing the mirror to allow himself to understand that he is struggling with moving on.

Admitting through the opening verse, Solar sings lines that point directly to the struggle he’s having:

“It’s safe to say girl it’s been hell trying to get over you”

“Some days I think that I’ll survive, some days I don’t”

While he then cleverly uses the second verse to delve into more of the specific causes that are igniting his staying stuck feeling: 

“It ain’t easy me missing you in that seat, singing along with “November Rain”

And I ain’t crazy about seeing your dashboard picture starting to fade”

Though he leans on the softer pace in the verses, it acts as the perfect accent for when we hit the chorus and he punches home the frustrated, confused, and hurting emotion by singing of how he’s trying to be as strong as he can be, but how every little thing keeps bringing her memory back around.

Hit songwriters who are trying to carve their niche as artists often struggle with finding their path. CJ Solar, though, has been finding his way since 2016’s Hard One to Turn Down while leaning on his songwriting skills (“Up Down,” “Some Girls,” Blue Bandana,” and more) as sort of a safety net as he tried different things as an artist to see what stuck and what didn’t. All these efforts through trial and error over the past five years have taught him the exact right moves to make, bringing him perfectly to this moment to set his artist career up for an exciting next chapter as he’s getting ready to release The Future’s Neon.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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