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The Starter Wife is a way for her to address and dismantle the terrible aches and devastations that she’s experienced over the years. It can be a slow process, filled with anger, doubt, and a desire to shy away from unpleasant truths, but Powell doesn’t allow her happiness to be destroyed without fighting like hell to preserve it. And throughout the album, no matter how bleak events turn, she holds on to a sliver of hope, a fragment of herself which sustains her as the echoes of lost years and emotional betrayal are examined. Through lead single and title track, “The Starter Wife”, she rages against the thought of letting herself be defined by terrible relationships and the emotional detritus they often leave in their wake. Against shifting guitar lines and a viscous bassline, she wrestles with the consequences of love as a toxic companion.

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