Seattle’s arms around the world return today with ‘right now’, the lead single from ‘connection', the second album from Jon Rimmerman’s rapidly evolving project. The record is due in January 2027, and if this first look is anything to go by, it’s going to be worth the wait.
For those new to the name, Rimmerman is the founder of Garagiste, the Seattle-born email wine business that grew from a temperature-controlled garage into the largest of its kind in the world. The New York Times Magazine profiled him, GQ dubbed him the man who blew up the wine world, and around 400,000 people read his emails daily. Then, after more than 30 years on the road, he drove alone into the American West in a Fiat 500 with no instruments at all, picked up secondhand guitars in small-town pawn shops, and started writing songs. The result was January 2026’s self-titled debut, which charted at #16 on the NACC Sub-Modern albums list and picked up airplay on more than 40 stations across 20 states.
‘right now’ is the sound of that momentum snowballing. Built on the abrasive, forward-leaning snarl of Rimmerman’s early 1970s Les Paul “gold top,” it nods to Berlin-era Bowie while carrying its own restless, physical swagger. Rimmerman describes the song as having been like a magnet from the moment he wrote it, and you can feel that pull in the way the track simply refuses to let go.
Its themes are just as gripping. Hunger for everything, all at once, all the time, is the engine here, and the deliberate repetition feels like a mirror held up to 2026 itself: a year of endless scrolling, reaching and wanting more. What stops it from becoming bleak is Hazel Stanfield’s backing harmonies, which glow around Rimmerman’s voice with a dreamlike tenderness. It’s a hypnotic, aching contrast, and it’s the part that lingers longest.
The song is also a promising signal for the album ahead. connection was recorded between Seattle and Paris, mostly live, with players including Geoff Stanfield (Farmer, Black Lab, Sun Kil Moon) and Tim Lefebvre, best known for David Bowie’s Blackstar. Rimmerman has opted to keep the chemistry intact rather than over-track it into perfection, leaving room for long instrumental passages, colliding guitars and moments of beauty rising out of noise.
It’s a bold and deeply human way to follow a debut, and ‘right now’ makes a persuasive case that arms around the world are only just getting started.
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