Grounded, Unburdened, Still Alive: Three Albums, One Living Conversation

Vibrant hues of orange, pink, and purple light up the sky as the sun rises over the tranquil waves of a secluded beach.

This winter and early spring, three albums arrive in quiet succession — not competing for attention but offering something more rare: a continuum of experience.

JS Worldbridger’s The Ground That Does Not Move releases on January 18, followed by Julie Jewels Smoot’s Nothing Is Required of You on January 30, and Author Honey Badger’s Still Alive arriving in March.

Each album stands fully on its own. And yet, together, they form a subtle arc — one that moves from grounding, to permission, to embodiment. Not a program. Not a prescription. Simply a sequence that mirrors how many people are already moving through their lives.

🌍 The Ground That Does Not Move — JS Worldbridger (January 18)

Releasing January 18, The Ground That Does Not Move offers sound as steadiness. This is not music that rushes, directs, or demands interpretation. It is an album that listens back.

Worldbridger’s work has long centered on presence rather than performance, and this album continues that orientation. The ground here is not rigid or unmoving in a brittle sense — it is dependable. Supportive. Something you can lean into when everything else feels uncertain.

This is music for remembering that beneath thought, beneath urgency, there is something stable enough to hold you. You don’t have to arrive anywhere while listening. You don’t have to transform. The ground is already there.

🪶 Nothing Is Required of You — Julie Jewels Smoot (January 30)

Arriving January 30, Nothing Is Required of You extends that grounding into permission.

Where The Ground That Does Not Move offers support, this album offers relief. Relief from striving. From fixing. From the subtle belief that healing must be earned.

Julie Jewels Smoot’s soundwork has always met listeners where they are, and this album does so explicitly — not through affirmation, but through experience. The listening space here does not instruct the nervous system; it allows it. Sound becomes something you can rest inside rather than respond to.

This album does not ask anything of you. And that is precisely the point.

🔥 Still Alive — Author Honey Badger (March)

Releasing in March, Still Alive enters after winter — and it feels like it knows that.

Where the first two albums dwell in stillness and rest, Honey Badger’s work brings movement. Not frantic motion, but embodied aliveness. Pulse. Rhythm. The unmistakable feeling of being here.

Still Alive does not negate rest — it grows out of it. This is music that sounds like circulation returning, like breath deepening, like someone realizing they are not just surviving, but inhabiting their life again.

It is not an answer to the previous albums. It is what becomes possible because of them.

How These Albums Work Together

These releases do not form a hierarchy or a method. They form a conversation:

• January 18 — GroundSomething steady enough to meet you where you are.

• January 30 — PermissionA reminder that you don’t have to do anything to belong here.

• March — AlivenessMovement that emerges naturally, without force.

Together, they reflect a rhythm many people recognize but rarely see honored:

Stabilize → Rest → Live

Not as a mandate. As an option.

You can listen to one album without the others. You can arrive in any order. Nothing breaks if you do. But when held together, these works quietly affirm something essential:

You are allowed to be supported.You are allowed to pause.You are allowed to feel alive again — in your own timing.