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'Pull it Together' is Shannon Stephens' third album. Vulnerability has been replaced with a fierce confidence born of experience. Stephens sings out now with a voice free of youthful self-consciousness filled instead with conviction… and no small amount of anger at the state of the world. She has always distilled powerful emotions into her music but this time the emotional dial is cranked. From the sweetly swaggering 'What Love Looks Like' to the searing 'Your Fabulous Friends' Stephens balances cynicism with generous quantities of warmth humour and empathy. Never is this fine balance more apparent than on 'Faces Like Ours' where Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham) weaves his voice with hers in a duet that wryly dissects the injustice of racial and economic privilege. The result of this new approach is an album that's gritty fluid and more accessible than her previous work.
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