Like pretty much every musician adjusting to the COVID era, L.A.-via-B.C. singer-guitarist Sam Weber was forced to rethink how he made records. For him, that meant podding up with his musical/life partner Mallory Hauser and their multi-instrumentalist friend Danny Austin-Manning in Weber’s Hollywood apartment for weekly jam sessions. But that physical confinement encouraged a spirit of aesthetic liberation. While Get Free is still very much rooted in the Springsteen-esque songwriting style Weber exhibited on previous releases, it frames familiar scenes of heartache, existential ennui, and working-class woe in refreshingly restless productions: “Truth or Lie” may begin as a typical sad-sack folk lament, but gradually gets carried away by a stirring undercurrent of needling strings and burbling rhythmic tics, while “Get Out of the Game” imagines The Band getting the late-’80s Daniel Lanois textural treatment. You can even hear some ambient street sounds bleed into the mix of “Here’s to the Future,” which has the feel of a classic Jackson Browne last-call piano ballad, but it is thrown delightfully off balance by a wobbly-kneed sax solo.