Following 2021’s Outside Child, a second excellent solo album by the Nashville-based Montreal-raised singer-songwriter and activist from the band Po’ Girl, Birds of Chicago and Our Native Daughters, with charming but emotively poignant Americana, folk, soul, gospel and pop. Backed by smooth gliding orchestral strings to bluesy, steel-guitar, Russell’s voice and songwriting is on top form – opener Springtime to the gentle swing of the title track, the funky, sassy disco cool of All Without Within, the catchy, resilient Gloria Gaynor-echoing Stay Right Here, the gospel-blues style of Demons, the poignant protest bluegrass of Eve Was Black, the staccato of Snakelife to stirring closer Requiem. After her last LP, Outside Child, which chartered the abuse and suffering of her childhood, this is an album about survival, redemption and hope. “Being a returner is stealing joy from the teeth of turmoil,” she says. Out on Birds of Chicago / Fantasy Records.
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