ELLEN FROESE FOLLOWS UP “SOLITARY SONG”, WITH NEW SINGLE “WONDERING WHEN?” OUT NOW VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS
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Ellen Froese’s second single of 2025, “Wondering When?”, continues to sum up where she is at right now as the Saskatoon songwriter wonders when or if there will be a time when anxieties don’t dominate her thoughts.
“I get caught up in spirals,” Froese explains. “Still, I'm trying to be thankful for the little moments of peace and joy, 'zoom out' a bit, and let go of waiting. I put a melody to some journaling I was doing.”
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“It’s been a weird year - lots of life changes, maybe some ego-death,” Froese previously shared alongside "Solitary Song”. Between an ADHD diagnosis and cutting back on some vices, her perspective - as a musician, a lover, a human being, has changed.
Froese had been clinging to the sense that she should be making art in a certain way, and she was never quite doing it right—gritting her teeth and writing daily morning pages, only to skip one day and think, “fuck, I guess I’m not creative.” But at this point in Froese’s career—4 full-length albums and many international tours deep—Froese is just trying to reclaim the free-flying feeling of writing “playful songs” as a 15-year-old on her family’s cattle farm.
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MORE ABOUT ELLEN FROESE
Froese’s honeyed voice and wry, down-to-earth lyricism can be heard throughout her last album, For Each Flower Growing, produced with the Sheepdogs’ Sam Corbett. Commingling the sounds of past and present—say, Loretta Lynn meets Adrienne Lenker, with a dollop of good ol’ fashioned rock n’ roll—it feels like Froese is looking you in the eyes as she sings of trying to find “a resolution between my heart and all the others that I had to leave behind.” With all the changes in her life, Froese reckons with all the wonderful feelings—and people—of the past, and the bitter-sweet freedom of moving on.
Though so much has changed in Froese’s life, one fundamental truth remains: she’s deftly penning head-turning songs that invite the listener to let go of the things that are getting them down. It’s flirting with self-acceptance while indulging in a hearty spoonful of self-deprecation; it’s trying to be “happy in the confidence of a solitary song”; it’s getting your friends on board for some cheeky country-folk tunes. And nobody does those quite like Ellen Froese.