Seven years after the singer/songwriter’s 2016 debut album, More Scared Than Me, Bec Stevens cranks up the big guitars and cathartic choruses on her long-overdue follow-up. That’s true right from the opening seconds: “A Stranger” brandishes a stadium-sized hook worthy of the Foo Fighters, setting up the cutting refrain “A stranger would care more about my life.” The rest of the album follows suit, often landing on the emo side of alt-rock while dispensing lyrics so personal that Stevens has described her songwriting as “trauma dumping with a backing track.” Relocated from Hobart to Melbourne, she finds ideal backing in guitarist/producer Jonathon Tooke (half of Cry Club) and members of Ceres, Luca Brasi, and Slowly Slowly. The Camp Cope-esque title track earns an appropriately anthemic treatment, while even the quiet romantic ballad “Nightreader” swells into a full-band affair partway through. “Blackout” is about leaning on friends amidst boozy desolation, while “Seddon” similarly recounts helping someone who’s taken too many drugs. “You & Me” was inspired by an experience with abortion, and the harmonies-bolstered “James’ Song” was originally penned by Stevens’ close friend James McKenzie, whom she lost to suicide. Nothing feels off-limits here, but every heart-on-sleeve revelation is treated with the respect it deserves.