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Resonant Mastering’s New Release Spotlight

“I Hope We Can Still Be Friends” by Dean Johnson

Released today August 22, 2025
Engineered by Johnny Sangster
Engineered by Nicholas Wilbur
Mastered by Ed Brooks + Rachel Field here at Resonant Mastering

“With I Hope We Can Still Be Friends, his debut for , Dean Johnson makes a pact with the listener: He will sing you his truth in the most heartfelt and charming way possible, if you promise to keep an open mind.

I Hope We Can Still Be Friends, with its sharp observations and stirring personal insights, holds space for both intense reflection and emotional release. You may laugh, or cry or both. In this sense, the album is powerful medicine — a way to both expose yourself to and inoculate yourself against the ugly, absurd, existential and heartbreaking. At its core rests a basic truth that is often difficult to remember or accept: Happiness wouldn’t exist without sadness as its counterpart.”

Go snag a copy today + Check out more about Dean here:

https://saddle-creek.com/products/i-hope-we-can-still-be-friends?srsltid=AfmBOooI84p-tO_n2pxiq2x6ye__INyTfyXe-4GMEOrOev54L_jcke3r

https://deanjohnsongs.bandcamp.com/album/i-hope-we-can-still-be-friends