Fran, the Chicago project led by musician Maria Jacobson, are releasing their new album Leaving next week. Three songs have been shared from it already — “So Long,” “Limousine,” and “Palm Trees” — and today we’re getting a fourth, “God,” a crackling but muted musing that Jacobson says is “about noticing how things change and how they stay the same.” “I’m not the same/ As I was when we started,” she sings on it. “The big mistakes/ That come with being honest.” Listen below.

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