Jeremy Voltz Confronts Distance and Devotion on New Single “Feel It All”

Burned-out mathematician turned indie soul artist Jeremy Voltz returns with “Feel It All,” a track shaped by the uneasy tension between wanting to protect yourself and wanting to stay connected to someone who matters. As part of his 2025 music campaign, the single studies the ways anger fades, how distance shifts, and why certain bonds hold on even when we wish they wouldn’t. Voltz leans into those contradictions with clear-eyed honesty, creating a song that sits in the fragile space where frustration and tenderness overlap.

“The song came from a rocky relationship with a friend,” Voltz shares. “I tried for almost a year to distance myself and keep safe at arm’s length. But I realized that no matter how hard I tried not to care about my friend, I couldn’t stop. My anger had dried up without me noticing, and I even tried to cling to it so I wouldn't have to care, because caring is hard. But ultimately, care blooms in spite of our best efforts.” His words echo the heart of the song, capturing the complicated relief that comes when we admit that caring is not a choice so much as a kind of instinct.

What makes “Feel It All” stand out in Voltz’s catalog is its origin. For the first time in his career, he built a release entirely on an Akai MPC, the drum machine and sampler long tied to J Dilla and introduced to Voltz through Dilla’s imprint on D’Angelo’s music. “It’s an amazing new way to create away from my guitar,” he shares. “The track inspired the lyrics, which is usually the other way around for me. When I came up with the beat, these emotions and lyrics flowed out of me almost instantly.” That shift in process shapes the entire track. Instead of starting with storytelling, he lets rhythm lead him into the emotional truth he needed to express, giving the song a pulse that follows the body before it follows the mind.

Voltz’s experience as a touring performer adds another layer to this release. He has brought his blend of soulful vocals and candid humour to stages across the UK, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Whether fronting a full band or playing alone with a guitar, he has a way of creating an atmosphere that feels intimate and welcoming, as if the audience is gathered in a friend’s living room. That same sense of closeness appears in “Feel It All,” not through softness but through the rawness of admitting something you kept trying not to feel.

His musical reputation continues to grow. Weekender, his debut album, won Album of the Year at the Ontario Folk Music Awards in 2022, and his follow-up Running Away (2023) gained national rotation through Stingray and CBC Radio. His songs have surfaced in commercials for Ford, the NFL, and Honda, and across major TV networks including Hallmark, TLC, Discovery Channel, Great American Family, and Australia’s Seven Network. Those placements reflect a songwriting voice that resonates across styles and mediums, carrying a straightforward emotional weight that translates quickly and clearly.

Looking ahead at 2025, Voltz is returning to more organic textures with support from the Toronto Arts Council. “Feel It All” fits into this new chapter, blurring singer songwriter clarity with soul inflections and a mood that feels unhurried, inward, and grounded. As with so much of his work, the song was written for a real person in his life, and that intention gives it shape. It acknowledges the things we say too late, the feelings we resist, and the truths we avoid because they ask something of us.

Voltz adds, “The message of the song is that you can try as much as you want to harden yourself, to not care, but care and concern grow in spite of yourself. Like a flower growing out of a crack in the sidewalk.” In “Feel It All,” he lets that vulnerability speak, trusting that the honesty itself is enough.