How Jensen McRae became L.A.'s next great songwriter

How Jensen McRae became L.A.’s next great songwriter

Jensen McRae is still chewing over something her therapist told her during their first session together. “I was talking about how sensitive I am and how I was feeling all these feelings,” the 27-year-old singer and songwriter recalls, “and she was like, ‘You have yet to describe a feeling to me — everything you’ve described is a thought.’” McRae’s eyes widen behind her stylish glasses. “That destroyed me. She said, ‘Feelings are in your body. Th…

How Jensen McRae became L.A.'s next great songwriter

On her knockout of a sophomore album, the 27-year-old documents the dissolution of two romantic relationships in gleaming acoustic pop songs that use gut-punch emotional detail to ponder complicated ideas of gender, privilege and abuse.