These fun, hummable tunes pack a delicious dark side. Accepting rage as a vital trigger for change, Kita Alexander gives herself full permission to express it here. Yet the Brisbane pop singer’s second album unpacks much more nuanced emotions along the way. She deploys some potent domestic metaphors during the first few songs alone, calling herself “the good house on a shitty street” on opener “The Good House” and telling a partner that she’s not his mother—and to finally wash the dishes—on the very cheeky “Sentimental Letter.” Many of these tunes offset the surface lightness of 1970s singer-songwriters like Carole King and Carly Simon with darker and more pointed lyrics, just as those two antecedents did so well themselves. To that end, Alexander celebrates her messy side on “Don’t Call Me Sunshine” and confesses to dodging therapy sessions and “collecting scars like souvenirs” amid the neo-soul tinges of “Avoidance.” And on “Tell My Friends,” a duet with Danish artist Christopher, she ponders how to break the news about getting back together with a reformed ex. Following her ARIA-nominated 2024 debut Young in Love and a run of sold-out tour dates with Dua Lipa the year after that, this album affirms Alexander as a songwriter able to inject whiplike wit into fun, hummable fare.