We were fortunate enough to be sent a preview link to 'Lifeboat' ahead of today's release and I’m excited for this new chapter of Scott’s music. The 6 track project opens up with the above-mentioned dive bar banger, ‘Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em’ before rolling into longtime fan-favourite ‘Acid in Aspen.’ The song has been in rotation for Sophia’s live shows for quite some time and it’s long been a song that fans have all but begged to be released for streaming. In fact, I’ve not known a fanbase request a song’s release so much since the Swifties learned there was a ten minute version of ‘All Too Well.’ Production on the studio version doesn’t disappoint and Scott’s vocals soar higher than the love-stoned protagonist in the lyrics: “The way that you look at me, I catch a buzz. Man, I can’t help it, I’m falling in love, and now I’m a junkie, to tell you the truth, all them drugs combined couldn’t get me as high as you.”

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Track 3: ‘Lights On’ is the only song of the six that Scott doesn’t have co-writing credit on - a rarity for her - but the song fits perfectly with her discography and feels like a something she could have written: it’s fun, flirty and hooky as hell as Scott implores a suitor to treat their relationship as more than just physical. “Love me with the lights on, love me when the night’s gone. In the middle of the day, even when the bed is made. Won’t you love me with your boots on. I’ll give you all my heart when we’re in the dark, if you love me with the lights on.” It’s a stand-out track!

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And while we’re on the subject of stand-out tracks, next up is title track ‘Lifeboat.’ Scott first teased the song in August in a social media post where she explained how it came to be written following the end of a relationship and a subsequent heart-to-heart with a friend who advised that maybe it was time - for the first time - that she save herself rather than try to ‘save’ a partner that was either unwilling or not ready to be saved.