“Got my heart broken/Broke a couple too,” Ruth B. announces at the top of her third album, and that line serves as a warning to both potential suitors and long-time fans alike: Things are about to get messy. Peace to Make sees the Edmonton-born singer continuing to refine the dreamy fusion of folk, R&B and indie pop that made her a viral breakout star in the late-2010s, but the songwriting here drives a spike into a heretofore untapped reservoir of raw emotion and fearless candour. This is a post-breakup album through and through, as Ruth pines for the good times through the laidback Lilith Fair vibes of “Best Days”, navigates a crisis of confidence on the post-Folklore lullaby “Breathe” and ponders the what-could’ve-been of it all in devastating detail on the plaintive piano ballad “Shoulda Been Us”. (“Do you ever wonder about the kids we’ll never have, the house we’ll never own, the life we’ll never know?”) But she finds her closure on the empowerment anthem “Pick Me”, whose rousing, cathedral-sized chorus reminds us that you can’t find a new love without loving yourself first.