Howard Gripp's new single, "I Can Feel The Change," is a reckoning, a recovery cry. It's the time you stop running and start being yourself and also for anyone who's looked their past and decided to walk through the fire regardless.
Gripp isn't just singing about change here but becomes it in this song. There's a real grit from the opening strum, like boots squaring down on dusty ground, prepared to walk away from something heavy. The guitar work is raw and unmediated and in its most honest form. It's the sound of a person at the edge of an old life, looking in the rearview as it goes up in flames and everything ahead burning brighter than ever.
Gripp's reading is brimming with emotion but never over the top. He straddles that fine line between strength and fragility like he's been doing it a hundred times. You hear the weight of the past in every note but also the hope that still claws its way to the surface. That tension provides the song's punch, that cinematic sense of something big about to go down.
"I Can Feel The Change" is about genuineness, not getting too big for your britches, and aspiring for something more. It would sound good on the soundtrack to some dramatic turning point in a movie, but it is also the sort of song you play on repeat when you're at your crossroads, over it, serious about it, and finally ready to move on.
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