[Cover photo credit to Alex Greenberg]

New Jersey native Kayla Janowitz, known musically as After Ours, came from a music-driven family. After facing significant health challenges in her early twenties, Janowitz found “solace and strength in music.” Out of that period of healing came her new record, Imaginary Friend.

Written between New York and Los Angeles, the album was recorded over ten days with Josef Kuhn in his Nashville studio and mixed by Al Carlson (Jessica Pratt, Weyes Blood, Arthur) in New York. This debut album is set for release on June 6, 2025 via Acrophase Records.

Janowitz has also revealed the album track “Different Now”, a “reflection on how time reshapes us—and the conflicting emotions that come with it.”

The accompanying video feels as if it were shot on an old camcorder, with grainy clips of Janowitz. As the closing track on Imaginary Friend, “Different Now” feels like a fitting resolution in Janowitz’s journey.

After Ours says about the track:

Different Now was the last song I wrote for the record, it felt like the missing piece to it all. This track ties the whole project together. It is essentially the grand finale and kind of ties the loose ends (emotions, questions, thoughts) of the previous tracks that were written months, and even years prior.

TOUR DATES

6/8 – Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right w/ Ava McCoy