Columbus, Ohio-based singer-songwriter Josh Krajcik released the second single, “I Don’t Fear It,” from his forthcoming EPIPHANIAC (Trajcik Music) album, which sees release on August 30. Listen to it here.
Of “I Don’t Fear It” Krajcik says, “I’ve always felt it’s a driving song. I wrote it in my truck on parking garage rooftops when it was too late to work. It feels like running to me. Towards or away from something. Both.”
The single follows the previously released “Pillar of Salt,” which is also available on all digital streaming platforms. Listen to it here.
Krajcik’s career began at 15 on the stages of bars in Ohio – forging a grungy, blues soul sound that would evolve into the Josh Krajcik Band. After putting out his first record at 18, Krajcik spent his 20s playing guitar on the road supporting artist friends on tour, including opening for Brandi Carlile, The Fray, and Corinne Bailey Rae, as well as releasing two more JKB albums (Ghosts and Atavistic).
His first major label release – Blindly Lonely Lovely (2013 Phonogenic/Sony – partially recorded at Abbey Road) – followed a stint on the first season of the X Factor, where he was runner-up. A co-write with Swedish DJ Avicii (“Addicted to You”) followed. Then in 2017, Krajcik returned to his roots with the self-released album Oblivion.
A life-changing event in 2019 jettisoned Krajcik into a new body of work. Deeply personal with universal meaning – EPIPHANIAC explores concepts of death and life, space and time, alternate realities, and the trauma of survival.
“Sonically I leaned into some of the sounds that I always loved as a kid,” Krajcik says. “I really wanted to take those things I loved listening to in the backseat of the car in 1987 and then corrupt them and make them my own.”
Photo by Chris Casella
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