Perfect animal

"Becca Stevens makes a giant leap into pop music complexity with her latest, an exhilaratingly fun listen ... It's a tour de force through every element of her expertise: quirky time changes, interesting cover songs, a voice made to fill a theater and a haunting honesty that peers through each note with a poise too good to ignore ... With Perfect Animal Becca Stevens (...) establish[es] herself as a force of a songwriter, a hell of a musical thinker and one elegantly provocative artist who more people need to know ... This is a statement of arrival, a piece of proof that exciting, complex and interesting pop music is still out there and it's still as good as it's ever been".

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"Singer/songwriter Becca Stevens continues to hone her distinctive jazz-, folk-, and art pop-influenced sound on her third full-length effort, 2015's Perfect Animal ... As with past Stevens albums, included on Perfect Animal are several surprising cover songs, including cuts by Frank Ocean, Usher, and Steve Winwood. However (...), Perfect Animal primarily showcases the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music graduate's maturation into a truly sophisticated, inventive songwriter and performer".

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