Daily Dose: Free Range, “The Moon”

Daily Dose is your daily source for the song you absolutely, positively need to hear every day. Curated by the Paste Music Team. Today’s installment features “The Moon” by Free Range.

Earlier this year, Free Range—the project of Chicago singer/songwriter Sofia Jensen—released their debut album, Practice. It was a solemn, sublime and stirring LP with brilliant tracks like “Want To Know,” “Growing Away” and “All My Thoughts” that quickly established Jensen as one of the brightest up-and-coming lyricists working right now and a crucial fixture of Chicago’s DIY scene.

Yesterday, they announced a new EP, Loft Sessions, which finds them performing two stripped-down tracks from Practice along with three new tunes—”The Moon,” “Way Out” and “Nothing”—and a cover of Townes Van Zandt’s “Tecumseh Valley.” The record was recorded at Wilco’s storied studio and finds Jensen giving these songs a second life with even more nuance than before. It’s a real reward watching such emotionally dense compositions become even more touching months after hearing them for the first time.