A.O. Gerber returns with first single of 2022 "Looking For The Right Things"

"Looking For The Right Things" is A.O. Gerber's first new material since her 2020 debut album Another Place To Need, and is accompanied by a Erik Shute-directed video.

A.O. Gerber says of the song, which is co-produced by Madeline Kenney, "I wrote this song in 2017 in a moment of exasperation, when my desire to show up as my honest self and let someone else show up as theirs felt impossibly difficult. That refrain, "Looking for the right things" was a sort of anxious plea — this looping frustration over the distance between intention and reality, the desire for closeness and the complexity of actually allowing it. We tried to record this song for my first record and we couldn’t get the production right (irony!). As the years went on, I tried again and again to re-work it, and the repetition of that refrain started taking on new meaning. There’s anxiety in it, yes, but there’s also gentleness, self-nurturance, and even some hope — this feeling that it’s worth it to stay open, stay tender, stay messy."