STEPHANIE LAMBRING started as a songwriter on Music Row, but after 5 years composing for other artists, she walked away from the music business entirely until legendary songwriter Tom Douglas encouraged her to return to her craft. Her 2020 debut Autonomy was a critical smash, prompting Rolling Stone to hail her “John Prine-esque observation” and NPR to declare her “one of Nashville’s most fearless young singer-songwriters.”
 
Her follow-up, Hypocrite, is a remarkable work of self-reflection that finds comfort in facing the uncomfortable head-on. The arrangements are lush and hypnotic, and the writing is as raw and vulnerable as it gets, confronting everything from religion and trauma to body image and motherhood with unflinching honesty. The record lands somewhere between Phoebe Bridgers and Alanis Morrissette as it looks for the best by reckoning with the worst, an album full of love and grace and compassion that reminds us that imperfection and humanity go hand in hand.