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Missy Higgins Talks America, ‘The Second Act’ and the Healing Powers of Music


Higgins explored the pain of a breakup, and channeled it into the album which, she explains, was recorded in a back room at her house.

Missy Higgins left no stone unturned in the creation of The Second Act, the Australian singer and songwriter’s sixth studio album. Released 20 years after her breakthrough debut The Sound of White, The Second Act(via Eleven/EMI) finds Higgins in an altogether different, and vulnerable, stage of life. Her sophomore se t On A Clear Night(from 2007) and third collection The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle(2012) also led the chart, while Oz(2014), Solastalgia(2018) and Total Control(2022) all cracked the top 3.

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