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First Listen: Maylee Todd, 'Acts Of Love'

The Toronto-based songwriter's new album beckons the listener into an intimate space where daydreams can go undisturbed.
Maylee Todd's<em> Acts Of Love</em> is out Nov. 3.

Artists who veer from their previous work stylistically often make the case that the new sounds or postures they've embraced are truer to their artistic identities and intentions than anything they've done before. We've heard it from Miley Cyrus, both when she indulged in rebellionand when she invoked this year, not to mention from a Lady Gaga Kelly Clarkson.

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