Free Range – the project of 18-year-old Chicago-based musician Sofia Jensen (they/she) – unveils a new single/video, “Growing Away,” from their debut album, Practice, out February 17th via Mick Music.
Co-produced by Jensen’s live bandmates Jack Henry (drums) with Bailey Minzenberger (bass), “Growing Away” is one of the most immediate songs on Practice. The track’s instrumentation bounces with warm twangs of guitar, uplifting percussion, and Jensen’s rich vocals, but it deals with a heavier subject matter – sobriety.
“‘Growing Away’ was written a few months before I ultimately did get sober, and it deals with the realization that I was losing track of who I was,” says Sofia. “The things I was doing were all controlled by the lack of compassion I had for myself. I felt really disoriented in this haze of memory loss that was becoming a huge part of my life, and I was still at a point where I had no idea how to talk about it with anyone. It was really important for me to write this song I think, because it served as an exercise in acceptance for me for the things I needed to do to finally take care of myself.”
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