Joseph Bergstrom - Hard Love (2023)

Hard Love takes the listener for a journey through styles of music, and then styles of love. Songs about lost love, forgotten love, warning love, destructive love, and, finally, hard love. A love that’s real, but hard to endure for all of its prickles.

And that’s how Joseph Bergstrom views music—hard love. A love that is overpowering and all-encompassing, that picks him off the ground after the world’s beatings have driven him down . . . and a love that has cost him a normal life. There’s wonder and majesty, and terror, and even a tinge of hatred in this album, but it’s all underpinned by a love that is strong, abiding, and unconditional. This is Hard Love.