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"   Photo: Magda Wosinska  The break-up album is nothing new\u2014this past year was, after all, dominated by Adele&amp;#039;s ode to a failed relationship\u2014but La Sera&amp;#039;s take on it may be. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s definitely not an angry break-up album\u2014it&amp;#039;s a happy break-up album!&amp;quot; says singer-songwriter Katy Goodman. The one-woman band&amp;#039;s sophomore album, Sees the Light, is made up of ten tracks showcasing Goodman&amp;#039;s butter-smooth vocals and penchant for blending `60s girl group harmonies with grittier guitar lines, and lyrics about accepting that life may be better solo. Song titles hint at the subject\u2014&amp;quot;Love That&amp;#039;s Gone&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t Stay&amp;quot;\u2014and the sweet-but-searing lyrics get to the heart of the matter; on the slow-building, lilting &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s Over Now,&amp;quot; Goodman delivers the all-too-true tell-off, &amp;quot;I throw my hands up in the air because it&amp;#039;s over now. You&amp;#039;ll feel better once we&amp;#039;re not together because it&amp;#039;s over now.&amp;quot; As Goodman explains, &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s about how sometimes when you break up, it&amp;#039;s for the best...well, maybe not both people. But it&amp;#039;s acknowledging the fact that sometimes people break up, and it&amp;#039;s OK. It seems like the end of the world, but it&amp;#039;s not.&amp;quot; Although it&amp;#039;s been a while since Goodman first penned the songs from her Los Angeles apartment, even she still feels their emotional impact. &amp;quot;The first song on the new album, every time we play it I feel like crying. This is way more personal than what I&amp;#039;ve done [in the past], and it still bothers me\u2014which is why we generally play it last, because it kind of makes me really sad. I don&amp;#039;t get crazy emotional, but I will tell you I cried one time at band practice playing that song,&amp;quot; admits Goodman. But while she&amp;#039;s managed to control her emotions while playing the new album live, there are some things that Goodman is quickly realizing she can&amp;#039;t control. &amp;quot;Sometimes I lose my voice\u2014it&amp;#039;s really scary,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;The last day of SXSW I sounded like Phoebe on Friends when she sang `Smelly Cat&amp;#039; with a cold! But it was cool\u2014no one really noticed. It&amp;#039;s hard to sing your heart out night after night.&amp;quot; With an album as good as Sees the Light, however, it is easy to listen to it on repeat "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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