After spending nearly a decade in Nashville writing song after song soaked in heartbreak and melancholy, Wes Kirkpatrick found himself burned out, creatively and personally. “I wasn’t even trying to write sad songs anymore,” he says. “It’s just all that ever came out.” Eventually, the weight of it all pushed him back home to the Colorado mountains, hoping something, anything, might change.
It did.
What started as a quiet reset quickly became a flood of unexpected joy. One day, Wes sat down to write what he thought would be another slow, sorrowful tune for a film project. Instead, something entirely different spilled out: hopeful lines, brighter melodies, a glimmer of happiness he didn’t recognize at first. “I thought it was unbearably cheesy,” he laughs. “Turns out, it was just happy, and I wasn’t used to that.”
What followed was a creative reawakening. The spark that got him into music in the first place, the love, the fun, the wonder, came rushing back. Suddenly, songwriting felt new again. And with that spark came a project. A collection of songs that don’t shy away from joy.
Wes’s new EP That Kind of Love is a celebration of rediscovered light. Built on warm folk-pop foundations, vintage tones, and lyrics that search for something meaningful in the everyday, it’s a testament to the kind of love that changes everything. The kind that sneaks up on you. The kind that brings you home to yourself.
The lead single and title track, “That Kind of Love,” is exactly that: a breezy, honest track about how love, in any form, can appear without warning and flip your world in the best way. It’s a realization wrapped in melody. It’s hopeful, vulnerable, and unmistakably human. "This little EP is super meaningful, because it marks such a big change for me. However, it's just the beginning. I've got songs piling up and I'm enjoying the wave of creativity".
Now living tucked high in the Colorado mountains, Wes blends the heart of a singer-songwriter with the groove and warmth of vintage pop. Fans of Dawes, Bahamas, and Rayland Baxter will find something familiar yet fresh in his sound. But ultimately, Wes Kirkpatrick doesn’t write love songs. He writes reminders. That joy is still possible. That the spark can return. That it’s not over yet.