Music has always been something Toronto-based singer-songwriter Ally Cribb instinctively understood, a gift inherited from her father, who is himself a musician and writer. She treats songwriting as a way of processing the experiences that shape her life and whenever something significant happens, she turns to her piano or guitar, working through confusion, frustration and wonder until feelings become words and music.

Some men come with enough warning labels to qualify as farm equipment and sometimes you climb on anyway because the smile is good and the chemistry is downright filthy. I knew some of these guys were bad ideas and fucked them anyway because they were built like horses but that never meant they earned unlimited access to me.