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On Everlast, Jack Emery finally puts both sides of his sound on one EP
Everlast is Jack Emery using three tracks to argue, for the first time on one release, that the patient and clubbier sides of his sound belong together rather than traded off across separate EPs.
Three tracks, one label he's now three EPs deep into, and a total running time that doesn't clear eleven minutes. Everlast is Jack Emery putting the patient side of his sound and the clubbier side on the same record for the first time, instead of trading one off against the other from release to release.
We've been watching Emery for a while now, since Believe landed in 2024, and Everlast is the record where it clicks. Same story live: a solo show in New York earlier this year made the case again, months before this one existed.
He's said as much himself. San Diego-based and classically trained before he ever produced a track, Emery calls it a record that "spans both melodic elements as well as a clubbier, more energetic side to my music." The tracklist backs him up. "Everlast" opens at 3:30. "Rise" runs longest, at 4:09. "Up and Down" closes it at 3:10, the shortest of the three.
The record works the space between those two modes rather than picking one. Quiet, orchestral passages give way to the bigger melodic peaks, and what carries it is arrangement rather than one obvious hook. All three tracks read as a single arc instead of a lead cut with two others behind it, which on eleven minutes is the only shape that makes sense: there's no room for a single to carry the rest, so none of them tries.
Everlast landed 13 March 2026 on Purified Records, Nora En Pure's label, and it's Emery's third EP there. It carries on-record support from Nora En Pure herself, plus Meduza, Sultan + Shepard, Pretty Pink and Mees Salomé, which is not a short list for an artist who isn't yet a headline name outside the format. Bringing someone back for a third EP, on a label built around Nora En Pure's own patient-to-club range, is the label saying it trusts Emery to hold both ends of that sound in one release rather than needing it split across two.
That's the case for Everlast: not one standout track carrying two others, but three tracks that only make their point next to each other. A DJ building a set around the calm-to-club arc Purified is known for now has all three pieces of it in one release.