Kendra Morris pares things back to their rawest on “Something In Common,” the most introspective cut from her forthcoming concept album Next (out September 19 via Karma Chief). Written alone with a guitar and a looped Wurlitzer sample, the song emerged with little ornamentation — a skeletal foundation that proved powerful enough on its own. Later fleshed out at Portage Lounge in Ohio with her band, the track pulses with heartbeat-like drum machine rhythms, Monti’s Wurlitzer stabs, and nylon-string guitar from co-producer Leroi Conroy, all orbiting Morris’s tender, layered vocals.

“There is all this conflict in our humanity, both internal and external,” Morris says.

“We kill each other over our differences or we destroy ourselves emotionally. But in the end…we’re all the same: dust in the ground.”

That meditation sits at the core of Next, a board game–inspired world that strips back production gloss in favor of intimacy and imperfection. With its hushed power and unflinching questions, “Something In Common” reminds us that even in the chaos of difference, our shared fragility is what binds us.