Nick Jonas girlies, the wait is over: Our boy’s new album is here.
Sunday Best — which dropped at midnight on Friday — marks Jonas’s first solo project in nearly five years and his fifth solo album overall. The 33-year-old also unveiled the music video for the album’s lead single, “Gut Punch,” on Friday morning.
“Oh my god. Sunday Best is finally out. I am so excited for you guys to hear this record. Honestly, it’s my favorite solo album I’ve ever made,” Jonas announced in an Instagram post. “Now it’s out. And it’s yours. I love this record and the fact that you’re gonna get a window into my world — but it’s more about what connects us all.”
Sunday Best is Jonas at his most assured — as an artist, husband and father.
“Sunday Best is a love letter to my family,” he recently told Spotify. “This album differs in a lot of ways, but the main one is that I’m older now and have a different perspective on life as a father and husband. I’m trying to apply where I’m at to every word and every musical phrase. This time around, I wasn’t focused on writing something that ‘sounded like a hit,’ but instead on what felt right to me… what felt honest, true, and real.”
When conceptualizing Sunday Best, Jonas drew inspiration from a YouTube video that his diehard fans likely played on loop: “Jealous (Gospel Version).” The clip, which has amassed more than 37 million views, sees Jonas performing the chorus of his 2014 track alongside a gospel choir.
“Big inspiration for the new album, actually,” Jonas told Hits Radio in an interview released last month. “I did this and got to go back and kind of touch on my roots of singing in the church. It was really special for me to lean back into it then, and so [when] I got to the point of making this new album, I really wanted to infuse some choir and gospel elements, and there’s quite a bit on the new album.”
“Hope,” the sixth track on the album, not only inspired the title, Sunday Best, but also the overall message Jonas wanted to send with this project.
“I put pen to paper on those early songs, and the first one was a song called ‘Hope,’ which is why the album is titled Sunday Best,” he told singer-songwriter JP Saxe last month. “There’s this lyric that kind of speaks about the early days of growing up in church and singing in church, and what that meant to me. Although my life with religion has taken a lot of different twists and turns, I feel very rooted in my faith. In my belief in something, in somebody who’s kind of overseeing and has a plan for you.”
For Jonas, Sunday Best is an album that’s more concerned with honesty than it is with putting up a front. Spinning out and feeling lost are part of life.
“The record comes at a time for me when I feel most settled in myself,” he also told Saxe, before acknowledging that his single “Gut Punch” may sound counterintuitive. “But that’s part of it. [It’s] knowing the things that make you stronger. That makes you feel like you’re kind of spinning out at times. It’s who you surround yourself with that really helps you traverse those moments in life.”
Jonas began unveiling tracks from the album last November, as part of his “Sunday Best Brunch” concert series, during which he played stripped-down versions of songs for select fans in an intimate setting.
Hours ahead of the album’s release, Jonas played the album in its entirety for a small crowd in New York City. He’s set to perform Sunday Best once more from start to finish in Los Angeles on Saturday, and then in Phoenix on Feb. 12.
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