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The album’s propulsive yet introspective lead single “Inside Outside” finds Stables as magnetic as ever, joined once again by her stalwart band of Rozi Plain (bass\/vocals), Neil Smith (guitar), and Jamie Whitby-Coles (drums), and accented by a cascading horn quartet arrangement by Jesse Vernon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCareful Of Your Keepers \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis daring and soft, cutting and warm–a wild feat of complexity and combined dispositions. There’s a shared language of the band’s family experience that is as audible as ever in these recordings, which boast beautiful instrumental performances that still leave the nuanced space required for Stables’ vocals to live at the forefront. “The album was nearly called \u003ci\u003eGoodbye Bite\u003c\/i\u003e. And in a way it still is,” says Stables. “I went for \u003ci\u003eCareful of Your Keepers\u003c\/i\u003e in the end. 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