"McRae ventured to North Carolina to record I Don't Know How But They Found Me! with Brad Cook (, , ), also enlisting the help of Hippo Campus's Nathan Stocker on guitar, 's Matthew McCaughan on drums, and her younger brother, Holden McRae, on keys. 'It felt like summer camp. None of us wanted to leave,'' McRae said. 'It was such a joyous ten days of pure creative expression.' In the process, I Don't Know How But They Found Me! found its footing--a vibrating, urgent collection of songs moored by razor-sharp lyrical specificity and timeless pop melodies. The unusual title of her second album? Taken from a line in McRae's favorite film, Back to the Future. A key protagonist survives a hail of bullets, and the image resonated with McRae. 'I really connected with the idea that I could've easily collapsed beneath the weight of what happened to me, but I didn't. I didn't even know it,' McRae says, 'but I was bulletproof the whole time.'" - Dead Oceans

• violet colored vinyl
• includes printed insert
• limited edition
• music label: Dead Oceans 2025