[Cover photo credit to Tom Thornton]

Singer/songwriter Ber has announced her debut album Good, Like It Should Be, out April 17, 2025, and has shared her new single “Book Cover.” The song is built on acoustic guitar and warm vocals, and a “country-twanged minimalism”.

Ber says:

I remember when I wrote it, I just started crying. Because all of a sudden I had this image of how it felt to be really overlooked as a person. I wrote it before I’d met my boyfriend, when I was really lonely and felt like I couldn’t get anywhere in the UK, and no one would take me seriously.

Her debut album’s title is tied to the final track and reflects “the hard-won peace of finally letting good things in.” Primarily written in Pepin, Wisconsin and Minneapolis alongside frequent collaborators Rob Milton (Holly Humberstone, The 1975) and Bradley Hale (Now, Now), the album is Alt-Pop and Country-leaning.

Ber adds:

It took me a really long time to figure out what the album was going to be called and what the track listing was going to be. I weirdly found myself in this place where we had too many songs, which was a blessing and a curse. Every time I would make any iteration of the album track list, it all centered around that song, not because I thought it was going to be some massive hit. But I just love it, and it feels really true. That was always my goal with making an album — for things to feel true.