| 1. Since she was 17-years-old, has made exquisitely catchy pop songs that capture the kind of complex and tender feelings we often keep hidden from the world. Now 24, found her relationship to songwriting profoundly transformed in the making of her third album liminal space, a body of work informed by a period of major upheaval and uncertainty in her family life. When met with a bigger and bolder sound threaded with elements of country and folk and indie-rock-achieved thanks to her all-female lineup of collaborators-the result is an up-close exploration of what she sums up as 'the messy, dark, complicated, and also very beautiful chaos inherent in mother-daughter relationships' |