"Becca Stevens makes a giant leap into pop music complexity with her latest, an exhilaratingly fun listen ... It's a tour de force through every element of her expertise: quirky time changes, interesting cover songs, a voice made to fill a theater and a haunting honesty that peers through each note with a poise too good to ignore ... With Perfect Animal Becca Stevens (...) establishes herself as a force of a songwriter, a hell of a musical thinker and one elegantly provocative artist who more people need to know ... This is a statement of arrival, a piece of proof that exciting, complex and interesting pop music is still out there and it's still as good as it's ever been"