ROLE MODEL

Role Model's been in love. He was so in love he wrote his entire debut album, Rx, about it. But not all romances last forever, and the 28-year-old's grieving of that same relationship is at the center of his sophomore album, Kansas Anymore. He began the project in 2022 but, faced with the ending of a formative relationship, he scrapped much of this early work. On his own and reinspired, he started anew, collaborating with Noah Conrad, Ian Fitchuk, Scott Harris and Jonah Shy to craft Kansas Anymore — a folk-tinged, lyric driven album featuring 13 songs including "Oh Gemini" and "Deeply Still in Love.” After performing the songs live on his No Place Like Tour, which sold over 90,000 tickets globally, Role Model was moved to share four new songs that further detail his journey. They appear on the album’s deluxe edition, Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye). He performed “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” – one of the new tracks – on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” as it began climbing the radio charts. As rough as it’s been to ride the roller coaster of heartbreak and homesickness, Role Model feels a sense of pride — and closure — having turned a personally heavy season of life into something that might move others.