Freedom Fry seems to be channeling a bit of early American folk music on its “Growing Up” single. The banjo provides as much texture as it does a percussive melody to frame the lyrics about the inevitability of growing up throughout life. Sometimes that growing can be painful, sometimes it can hit us unawares, sometimes it comes to us in a flash for which we’re not prepared, certainly not at the rate at which it happens, sometimes its a gradual realization that seems so natural that it doesn’t feel like growing. Freedom Fry embraces and celebrates this aspect of life that all of us, with any luck, share rather than sitting static in a part of life stubbornly refusing to move into a different headspace given new information and changes in the body and life circumstances that aren’t always, arguably rarely, entirely under our control and it’s folly to believe that anyone is completely the master of their destiny. Freedom Fry’s jaunty vocal harmonies and immediately engaging and compelling melody draws one’s attention immediately with sentiments that hit with an obvious truth that is easy to overlook in the rush of life in the living. Listen to “Growing Up” on Spotify and follow the prolific songwriting duo at the links below.
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