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MUSIC FEATURE

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Trustfall by P!nk is out now via Sony.

IN THE P!NK FEATURE

T o which pillar of genre do you travel when you’re so well established in pop that you could climb any one of them that you wanted? The answer is: por que no todo? You make a road-trip out of it, and you stamp your handprint on every one of those genres, and then you silk-spin off into the sunset with – possibly – your sixth number one Aussie album in a row. Trustfall is P!nk’s ninth record overall, and it’s a collection which really does fling all over the place. But P!nk’s voice is the Svengali in the middle of these arena enormous tracks, most of them sweeping around the poignant neck of the woods with lashings of reverb on the vocals. Turbulence ’s muted electric

guitar chords and reassurances that “Panic is temporary, but I’ll be permanent/ So when it hits don’t forget, as scary as it gets/ It’s just turbulence,” gives major fifths just like Toni Braxton’s Breathe Again . The title track proffers a heavy club beat and another minor key, and asks, “Are we just too scared to fight for what we want tonight?” P!nk gets her chance to belt on the piano-only ballad Our Song , whose title is misleading, in a little flip of expectations. It isn’t a triumphant love song; it’s about the significance of a couple’s ‘song’ losing its hold as the romance dissolves. In what seems at first a pretty oddball team-up, Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit pop out of the forest

go around the paddock with Just Say I’m Sorry . She sounds truly in her element here. P!nk has declared that Trustfall is about necessary change, feeling all of the emotions deeply, and gratitude between humans. “We will fight for everyone to have a reason to dance,” she writes, and Trustfall communicates that avowal with undeniable belief. ZKR

on Kids in Love , which makes good use of the sisters’ filigree blood harmonies. P!nk has never courted the kind of reserve of the duo’s style, but her voice gives the track a serration next to the girls’ sweet timbres. Meanwhile, having clearly enjoyed duetting with country royalty Chris Stapleton on her last album Hurts 2B Human (2019), P!nk snares the Kentucky singer songwriter-producer in for another

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