Releasing alongside the music video for lead single Mona Lisa, Charlie Jeer closes the year with a debut that confirms everything we suspected when we first featured him in METAL earlier this year: the 22-year-old saxophonist is quietly reshaping jazz-house for a new generation. With co-signs from Calvin Harris, Black Coffee and Songer already in the bag, Everything Is Temporary marks his arrival with clarity and purpose.
Jeer’s trajectory has been both rapid and carefully shaped. Rooted in classical training yet driven by instinct, he moves between precision and emotion with enviable ease. His 90 million streams didn’t happen by accident; they trace the evolution of a sound that turns saxophone phrasing into a kind of liquid handwriting.
Across its eight tracks, Everything Is Temporary feels like a snapshot of the last eighteen months: the ruptures and repairs of relationships, late-night experiments, and the surreal acceleration of self-made success. Sun Is Gone returns as a crowd favourite, while Her Eyes and Nobody offer early anchors to his emerging identity. Mona Lisa opens the EP with smooth warmth before Jeer shifts into the punchier optimism of I Found Love. Babylon and Lucid Dreams stretch his palette further, folding ambient edges into rhythmic minimalism without losing their emotional thread.
Working alongside producer Ben Stancombe, Jeer builds a space where instrumental freedom meets intentional songwriting — a dialogue he frames as “letting the sax say what words can’t”. It’s a vision sharpened not only by discipline but by the unexpected detours in his life: classical studies, amateur boxing, economics, TikTok, and the restless curiosity that binds them all. “A year after my first release, I’m so proud to put out this body of work,” he wrote on release day.