Jensen McRae turns Just Like You into the joyful aftershock of healing alone

Jensen McRae’s Just Like You arrives as the first look at the deluxe expansion of I Don’t Know How But They Found Me...Again!, and the whole project sounds like an artist refusing to let a record’s emotional world close too neatly. The deluxe edition adds twelve songs, with features from Brandi Carlile, Brittney Spencer and Maisie Peters, but Just Like You keeps the focus on McRae’s own balancing act: healing, solitude, humour and the strange joy that can appear once you stop waiting for someone else to rescue you. The video reportedly nods toward Alanis Morissette’s Ironic era, which makes sense for a song trying to turn pain into a pop-shaped wink without cheapening the wound. McRae’s strength is that she can make self-awareness feel melodic rather than self-protective. Just Like You sounds like healing with the windows down.

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