Jeff Tweedy Poetically Muses List of Methods for Personal Liberation on ‘Twilight Override’ Lead Single “Feel Free”

By Hana Gustafson

Jeff Tweedy has shared the lead track off his fifth solo effort, the triple album Twilight Override, due on September 26 via dBpm Records. “Feel Free” hands over the very best of Tweedy’s skillset, his ability to poetically mold messages without relinquishing the whole truth; instead, he builds a narrative that promotes a meditative reverb of the title, coupled with modes for personal liberation. At seven minutes, the track is a list of reminders that the mundane moments carry the capacity to break the mold, and, well, feel free.

“The freedom I’m talking about in this song comes in both small doses and large doses. It arrives at me, at the most free I feel in my life. Which is making a record with my friends and singing a song that I feel like is a part of the past, present and future,” Tweedy says of the single, which features accompaniment from his Chicago-based musical support system: James Elkington, Sima Cunningham, Macie Stewart, Liam Kazar, and sons, Spencer and Sammy.

The acoustic framework promotes Tweedy’s sprightly reminder, “Feel Free,” which sandwiches the start and end of each verse, a double reminder to go with each action’s inspired effect. The result presents like an indie-informed father’s sage advice: “Feel free/ Think of your name on a marquee/ Aim for something you can’t see/ Feel free.” With family values accounted for, the track also leans into a more abstract form of freedom that also promotes Tweedy’s title of wordsmith: “Feel free/ Swim alone in the open sea/ Bounce around holding a baby/ Feel free.”

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