Following the release of “For Real”, his collaboration with Aloe Blacc that marked his national television performance debut on Live with Kelly and Mark, singer/songwriter Eric Hirshberg has returned with new single and video, “We’re All In This Alone.”
 
“We’re All In This Alone” looks at one of the forces creating division for humanity: “the algorithm.”

The song “examines how digital systems designed to serve us increasingly shape us instead – pulling people down invisible pathways that begin innocently and often end somewhere unrecognizable.”

Hirshberg says:

It’s kind of ‘love in the time of the algorithm. The algorithm is the plague. It touches everybody. There are these on-ramps that start positive and pull us in, and then somehow end up a horror movie. You click on, ‘Are you eating gluten free?’ and find yourself reading, ‘the vaccines have 5G in them!’ a few minutes later. We’re all trying to figure out how life works under this sort of soft tyranny of the algorithm.

He adds:

This song is about the paradox of hyper-connected isolation – a world where everyone is networked, yet everyone is also increasingly siloed.

The song is built around a guitar line Hirshberg has carried with him for years, waiting for the right moment to bring it forward.

He says:

That bit has haunted me forever. It’s been on my ‘I need to build a song around that someday list for as long as I can remember. It feels like a collaboration between my older and younger selves – like different parts of me had to wait a long time to meet each other to write this song. There’s something romantic about that to me.

The latest two releases offer a picture of Hirshberg’s forthcoming third album, More Is Not The Answer, which will be out in mid-2026. The album promises songs that “explore connection, modern anxieties, and the search for humanity in an increasingly distorted digital  landscape.”