Northern Irish singer/songwriter Joshua Burnside strips his sound to its barest elements on ‘It’s Not Going to Be Okay,’ a raw and unflinching album written in the aftermath of personal loss that confronts grief without illusion or resolution. Blending intimate acoustic arrangements with heartrending lyrical detail, the record captures the contradictions of mourning – memory and absence, lightness and despair – offering a deeply human portrait of life itself that finds meaning in the act of carrying on.