BER ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM ‘GOOD, LIKE IT SHOULD BE’ OUT APRIL 3 AND RELEASES NEW SINGLE “BOOK COVER” SUPPORTING SYML ON HIS EU TOUR THIS WINTER
December 9, 2025 BY Bailey Vigliaturo
Ber announces her long-awaited debut album Good, Like It Should Be, out April 3, and shares her deeply emotional new single “Book Cover.” Arriving on the heels of recent fan favorites “Who’s This” and “Good, Real,” the new release further showcases Ber’s singular gift for blending tender lyricism, gentle humor, and vivid honesty into songs that feel both intimate and instantly relatable.
Anchored by soft acoustic guitar and warm, unvarnished vocals, “Book Cover” leans into a hushed, country-twanged minimalism inspired by Golden Hour–era Kacey Musgraves.
“I remember when I wrote it, I just started crying,” Ber says. “Because all of a sudden I had this image of how it felt to be really overlooked as a person. I wrote it before I’d met my boyfriend, when I was really lonely and felt like I couldn’t get anywhere in the UK, and no one would take me seriously.”
The new single introduces Good, Like It Should Be, a 12-track collection shaped by joy, introspection, and the hard-won peace of finally letting good things in. Primarily written in Pepin, Wisconsin and Minneapolis alongside frequent collaborators Rob Milton (Holly Humberstone, The 1975) and Bradley Hale (Now, Now), the album moves fluidly from shimmering alt-pop to country-leaning warmth. Each track feels like a snapshot of Ber learning to trust her happiness, embrace love without hesitation, and step into the most grounded version of herself yet.
In naming her debut, Ber returned again and again to the album’s closing acoustic ballad, ultimately letting that song point her toward the project’s core truth.
“It took me a really long time to figure out what the album was going to be called and what the track listing was going to be,” she explains. “I weirdly found myself in this place where we had too many songs, which was a blessing and a curse. Every time I would make any iteration of the album track list, it all centered around that song, not because I thought it was going to be some massive hit. But I just love it, and it feels really true. That was always my goal with making an album — for things to feel true.”
From the euphoric brightness of “Good, Real” to the tongue-in-cheek glow of “Who’s This,” and now the emotional weight of “Book Cover,” Ber continues to build a world rooted in compassion, clarity, and self-honoring. Good, Like It Should Be captures an artist stepping forward with confidence, not because everything is perfect, but because it finally feels true.
