Janine is not done telling this story. Today, the New Zealand-born, LA-based artist expands her most personal project yet with the release of Pain and Paradise (Deluxe), adding three new tracks that push the album’s emotional core even further.
Out now via Little Mixtape Records, the deluxe edition folds in “Reset,” “Running Through Your City,” and “Someone,” extending an album that already lived in the space between grief and gratitude. The original record was shaped by loss, written in the aftermath of her father’s passing, but never settled into a single emotion. That duality remains intact here, just sharpened.
“Reset” lands as the centerpiece. It carries a lighter touch sonically, but the subject matter stays close to the bone. Janine frames it as her “Romantic ADHD anthem,” a track about the kind of love that steadies you rather than destabilizes you. It is less about heartbreak than what comes after, when you are trying to rebuild your sense of calm and figure out what actually feels safe.
Across the full 19-track project, the sound moves fluidly. Soul and indie R&B remain the backbone, but there are clear flashes of alt-pop and house influence woven in. Some songs stay stripped and intimate, others open up into something more expansive, but nothing feels out of place. The cohesion comes from tone, from the way every track circles back to the same core idea. Pain and paradise are not opposites. They exist at the same time.
That perspective is what has kept Janine’s audience locked in. Since its initial release, the album has pulled in over 100 million streams, with tracks like “Good Vibes” picking up viral traction and bringing new listeners into her orbit. Live, those songs have translated into something even more direct, turning quiet, internal moments into shared ones across packed rooms.
The deluxe does not reinvent the project. It completes it. The edges feel more defined, the emotional throughline clearer. If the original album was about surviving something, this version feels like the first step toward understanding it.
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