Cade Hoppe Announces New Album, ‘Safer at a Distance’ | New Single “Flatearther” Out Now
Hoppe’s path into music was far from traditional. While studying finance and playing basketball at New York University, he found himself increasingly pulled toward songwriting and production. When the pandemic hit, he decided to pursue music full-time, supporting his early releases through service industry jobs as he developed his sound as both an artist and producer. After spending seven years in New York City, Hoppe recently relocated to Los Angeles, where he continues to expand his emotionally driven style while taking on more production work for other artists.
He first introduced that cinematic, introspective approach on his 2021 debut EP, Tell Me How It’s Worth It, before building on it with Everything That’s Wrong with You in 2022 and Just Look At The Moon in 2023. Along the way, Hoppe has earned support from outlets like Notion, Ones To Watch, and EARMILK, cementing his place as an emerging voice with a talent for pairing vulnerable songwriting with immersive production.
“This whole album oscillates between acceptance and denial, while constantly assessing what is and isn’t reality, Some truths are hard to face, and ‘Flatearther’ especially explores that.”
LA-based singer, songwriter, and producer Cade Hoppe has announced his new album, Safer at a Distance, arriving November 13, alongside its final pre-release single, “Flatearther.” Following “Still Turn This Around,” “Lake Michigan,” and “Crashland,” the track pairs hazy, atmospheric production with Hoppe’s emotive vocals as he explores denial, self-deception, and the strange comfort that can come from believing what you want to believe. The song uses the surreal image of someone sailing around the entire world and still insisting that it is flat as a metaphor for the way people can ignore overwhelming evidence when the truth feels too difficult to accept. Rather than treating that denial as something ridiculous, Hoppe approaches it with empathy, capturing the emotional space between knowing something is over, wrong, or impossible and still desperately wanting another version of reality to be true. Its spacious production and introspective delivery deepen that feeling, giving the song a dreamlike quality that mirrors the disconnect between reality and the story we sometimes choose to tell ourselves.
That same tension runs throughout Safer at a Distance, Hoppe’s fourth project following Tell Me How I’m Worth It (2021), Everything That’s Wrong With You (2022), and Just Look At The Moon (2023). Across the album, he reflects on his evolving relationship with music, ambition, and the uncertainty that comes with pursuing a future that offers no guarantees, while “Flatearther” becomes one of the clearest expressions of those larger themes. The track captures the point where hope begins to blur into denial and perseverance becomes harder to separate from the fear of letting go. Rather than offering easy resolutions, Hoppe sits with that uncertainty, using “Flatearther” as a vulnerable final preview of an album concerned with distance, perspective, and the emotional cost of continuing to believe in something when you are no longer sure where it is leading.
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