Nova Scotia via London singer-songwriter Jont returns with “Dark Days Are Over”—a defiant, emotionally raw anthem that channels the spirit of renewal after despair, and the untamed joy that emerges when we simply begin again.

“Things linger…. In the soul, in the fabric of the soul,” Jont shares. “Wounds picked up in ancient battles might never heal in this life and who knows, from what science tells us we hand down both our physical and emotional trauma to our descendants. The funnel leads to us and we take it on as ours and it can feel too much to bear.”

“Until you get it,” he continues. “Until one day it comes to you. Like a life-affirming riff you’ve never played before that’s been staring you in the face every time you’ve played an E chord… In this time of grand cynicism and wariness, fear and betrayal of ourselves, is it possible that something so pure and true can wing its way through in the shape of a life-affirming riff, in the form of some simple poetry that carries just enough meaning to make you smile and dance?”

Jont says the song came pouring out of him last spring after a long “dark winter of the soul,” when his beliefs around purpose and meaning had been brought to the edge.

“The conclusion I’d reached was Just Do It. Yep. The 90’s Nike slogan had been what I’d got from my dance with despair. And my friends — it works. Just fucking do it. Not why, or who will listen, or who cares, or what’s the point — Just do it.”

From that moment, something changed. A trickle became a flood.

“I started releasing my songs to an unsuspecting audience of about 10 followers who still remembered who I was. I got a band together. I started an alcohol-free music night serving cacao in a community where this was unheard of. And then — this. This riff started coming through and after the winter I’d had I am happy to tell you I cried as this song poured out onto the page.”

“Dark Days Are Over” is the sound of emergence. Of remembering joy. It’s a raw, rhythmic singer-songwriter release with undeniable emotional power, sung from the depths and soaring with optimism.