HORSEGIRL
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Horsegirl group from Chicago
FREE RANGE
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To build something new, you have to let the old things go. That spirit of reinvention is essential to Chicago indie-folk project Free Range, the brainchild of Sofia Jensen (guitar, they/them) that came together at a time when the world seemed to be falling apart. Live and in the studio, Sofia is joined by collaborator and producer Jack Henry (drums, he/him), who helped Jensen fill out the skeletons of songs they composed in the solitude of quarantine. Bailey Minzenberger (bass, they/them) sat in with Jack and Sofia for a series of late-night sessions during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and before long, the three musicians had re-recorded an entire album’s worth of material. Free Range is a departure from Sofia’s previous work as a rock ‘n’ roll bandleader; they “wanted to turn the electric down, and the acoustic up” for this new project.
VERITY DEN
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Verity Den’s’ self-titled debut album is being released on March 1, 2024. The album was mixed at home by the band’s Casey Proctor and mastered/cut by Greg Obis at Chicago Mastering Services. The album presents a guitar music refracted through clamor and tenderness, static and hiss, drum machine and synth. The lyrics survey themes of current existential exhaustion and impressionistic reflections This is bound with persistent guitar hooks and equally acidic edges. Formed in early 2023, Verity Den consists of NC-via-Bellingham, WA songwriter/engineer Casey Proctor (Haruspex Palace/Holy Sons), longtime journeymen Trevor Reece and Mike Wallace, late of Drag Sounds (NC) and the addition of Reed Benjamin (Calapase, No One Mind) to round out the live unit.
