Baseball (2025)

Baseball is the upcoming eighth Jacks Flat album. The album will release worldwide on April 18, 2025; pre-release began for Jack's close friends in early March 2025, shortly after production on the album was completed. Five singles have been released in promotion of the album: "Where Do Adults Come From?", "Catch Me if You Can", "Guilty by Association", "Picture Day", and "High Life". Jack describes Baseball as by far his greatest work and a "memoir in album form". He has also said that it will "[explain] everything anyone will ever need to know about [him]".

Tracklist:

1. Prelude III

2. Where Do Adults Come From?

3. I Promise We're Okay

4. Whatever We Want

5. Picture Day

6. High Life

7. Old Car

8. Something for Me

9. Catch Me If You Can

10. What Did I Do?

11. Hopes & Dreams

12. Never Smile Again

13. Guilty by Association

14. Lazy Day

15. Baseball

16. Goodbye, Childhood

17. Ambulance

18. Epoch

Baseball is what Jack describes as a "memoir in album form"; it tells the story of his beliefs, personal experiences, emotions, traumas, and everything in between, collectively revealing some things that he hasn't ever before told a single person about. Another large aspect of the album is the search for societal approval.

Fun Facts:

• Clocking in at well over an hour long, as well as including eighteen songs, Baseball is by a landslide the longest Jacks Flat project.

  • Beginning production in October 2022 and wrapping in March 2025, Baseball is also the JF album that took the longest to finish from its conception, its production lasting nearly 2 and a half years.

• Several songs on Baseball were originally meant for other projects; "Whatever We Want" and "What Did I Do?" were written for the now-disbanded Rise 25, An early demo for "Picture Day" was written in early 2022 with the intent of being a one-off single, "Never Smile Again" was intended to be included on the scrapped deluxe edition of the previous JF album JACK OUT THE BOX, and early demos of "Lazy Day" and "Epoch" were written for the Satisfactory Intelligence EP.

• The top three longest songs Jack has ever written are all on Baseball.

• Baseball was originally going to be two separate sister albums, called "Baseball: Part I" and "Baseball: Part II:", split into the first 9 and latter 9 tracks respectively, each released within a week of the other; it was then going to be a double album, but then it was finally decided that all 18 songs would be grouped and released together.

  • Despite the final decision of the album being a singular album with a singular disc, Baseball's two halves are still very distinct from each other.

• Baseball was almost going to be titled "Epoch", sharing a name with its closer.

  • Other former names of Baseball include "My Entire Life So Far" and "Jacks Flat vs. The World".

• Track 16, "Goodbye, Childhood", takes its name from and samples a line of dialogue from the episode "Carpet Diem" from the Disney XD cartoon Gravity Falls.

• Several fully-recorded songs (vocals included) were ultimately scrapped from Baseball.

• The tracklist for Baseball wasn't finalized until nearly three months after the album was announced; almost everything stayed exactly the same for the last few months leading up to the announcement, but Jack was heavily debating whether track 8 should've been "Something for Me" or another now-scrapped song, before ultimately deciding he preferred "Something for Me".