- 2025-02-20
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MUSIC
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Jensen McRae Announces New Album “I Don't Know How But They Found Me!”, Shares New Song “Praying For Your Downfall”
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Jensen McRae has announced her upcoming sophomore album “I Don't Know How But They Found Me!” will be released on April 25, 2025.
It marks her first album in three years since the 2022 debut album “Are You Happy Now?”.
Also it is the first release under her new label Dead Oceans.
The album title is inspired by the 1985 film “Back to the Future”. On the album, she explores the theme of overcoming the desire for revenge against a former partner who hurt her.
Jensen McRae explained, “I could've easily collapsed beneath the weight of what happened to me, but I didn't. I was bulletproof the whole time.”
The album comprises 11 songs, which she recoded with producer Brad Cook in North Carolina.
From the album, she released a new song “Praying For Your Downfall” on February 19, 2025.
The song is the second single off of the album, following “Massachusetts” released last June.
It was written by Jensen McRae and produced by Brad Cook.
The accompanying music video was directed by Kat White.- Jensen McRae said of the song, “I crack jokes all the time about how I spent my mid-twenties speed running coming of age after a comically sheltered adolescence. it was only fitting that my first real heartbreak was like 25 years of feeling hitting me in the face all at once. and he felt...fine, I guess. the injustice seemed cosmic. we always used to joke about how he lived under a lucky star, and I begged and manifested that his lucky streak would finally end. and of course it didn't. but it kind of ended up being okay. I didn't have to vanquish him to prove anything. one day I woke up and I could even think about him without my heart stopping-about his weird little catchphrases, his favorite video games, that one small town in New England...but before I could write about that, I had to write about this.”
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She continued, “Can I be honest? I've been wishing you unemployment and bad sex and amateur haircuts since the moment you walked out my door. If I was going to be miserable & lonely, the least the universe could do was make you bored & ugly in return. But I'm tired. I can't keep it up anymore. It's been months, & I still miss you, & I still haven't felt anything close to what I felt for you with anyone else. And maybe it'll be another six months, or it'll be three years, or maybe it'll never happen again, but who cares, because I can't keep waiting for you to fail. I hope you get everything you deserve. Honest. Even if it's good.”
Photo by Bao Ngo - source : Apple Music
