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Slugger, the debut LP from Sad13 a.k.a. Sadie Dupuis, prioritizes self-possession in every sense. Sadie, who fronts the dynamite grunge-pop band Speedy Ortiz, forewent her usual modes of collaboration on Slugger, writing and producing the record herselfto exorcise my control-freaky demons, she says.

After Sadie moved to Philadelphia in early 2016, Slugger quickly began to take shape: I wrote and played and recorded almost all of it in the two weeks I was subletting a friends tiny bedroom, she says. Fittingly, directness, self-determinism, and intimacy are the bedrocks of Sluggers overall tone. Sadie maintains her dignified wit even in less-than-ideal entanglements, as on the albums opening track,