Jensen Engineering - Dates

Jensen Engineering
Dated

Release date: 11/09/2025

Slow & Steady Records announces the release of Jensen Engineering’s second full length album, Dated. Jensen Engineering is the brainchild of singer/songwriter, producer and in-demand tubist Jonathan Seiberlich. On Dated, Seiberlich turns his focus to the modern dating landscape, with 14 poetic songs commenting on everything from online dating profiles and being “ghosted,” to falling in love, feeling stuck in a loveless relationship, and the hyper-sexualization of single life.

The album covers an impressively wide range of genres as well – “the different styles that made me fall in love with music”, shares Seiberlich. You’ll hear R&B and soul-inspired tracks like “Vision” (featuring Jazz Mafia) and “Love Life,” and the epic power ballad duet “You And Me” (featuring Kate Lamont). You’ll hear the old school country-inspired “Alright” and later the electronic-driven rap song “Data’d” (featuring Deuce Eclipse), followed by stripped down acoustic folk songs like “Down By The Creek” and “Alone At Last.” This all comes after the opening track, the standard “I Fall In Love Too Easily” popularized by Chet Baker, which sonically transports you to a small jazz club in the 1950s. The opening title is a fitting mantra and double entendre for both the tapestry of genres and love-themed subject matter to come.

Indeed, on Dated genre functions as another vehicle for story telling. A driving, unapologetic punk approach to a song about being ghosted fits like a glove. Though, savvy listeners might want to compare the album version of “Ghost” to the funky acoustic single version released in 2018, produced by beat mastermind Otis McDonald, and make up their own mind. According to Seiberlich, the album title provides another double entendre. “It frames the modern dating experience as something that happens to someone, as opposed to something someone participates in,” relays Seiberlich. “It also conveys a feeling of growing older and how that can make us feel less appealing to potential partners.”

But with age also comes experience. Dated as a whole showcases the impressive evolution of Seiberlich as a songwriter, producer and musician in the 10 years since his self-released debut, Album # One. It’s an album that also feels embedded in the modern artist landscape, where it’s more and more common to encounter artists like Seriberlich who do it all – good songwriting, tasteful arranging and orchestrating using a wide palette of instruments, crisp and atmospheric production, grounded by low brass you’d expect to hear in a symphony hall.