“The songs range from the title track’s hellfire invocation of Old Testament vengeance to the complex paradox presented within The Cure for the Pain, where “the cure for the pain is the pain”. Throughout the album, Peters’s tales of human darkness and struggle testify that her insights into emotional circumstances remain as true as they were for Independence Day, her breakthrough song in 1995, where she nuanced a woman’s stand against domestic violence with American Independence Day celebrations.”

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