PUT IT TOGETHER

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, she balances cynicism with generous quantities of warmth, humor 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 is gritty, fluid, and more accessible than her previous work. Call it pragmatic pop, optimism balanced with the sharp-edged reality of life in 2012.??Shannon Stephens Pull It Together Track Listing:??1. Wax and Feathers ?2. Care of You ?3. What Love Looks Like ?4. Girl ?5. Cold November ?6. Out of Sight ?7. Faces Like Ours ?8. Your Fabulous Friends ?9. Down the Drain and it's Gone ?10. Buddy up to the Bully ?11. Responsible Too Long