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Susanna Hoffs is best known as the co-founder and front-woman of the multi-platinum and global chart-topping band The Bangles. Their era-defining anthems include, “Manic Monday,” “Walk Like an Egyptian,” as well as “In Your Room” and the worldwide number one hit “Eternal Flame,” both co-written by Susanna. What began with an artful flyer designed by Susanna and taped to a restroom wall in a Los Angeles club grew into a fandom spanning multiple continents and four decades, as The Bangles became one of the most internationally beloved bands of their time.

As the daughter of a psychoanalyst father and artist mother, Susanna was a bohemian art student who attended UC Berkeley. She is known to her friends for the stories she tells. If she thinks it, she will say it, and it will be outrageously frank and funny, if not a little scandalous. Her keen powers of observation, wicked sense of humor, and eye for the unique details of life and love are what make her such a gifted storyteller. Susanna adores nothing more than to jam in her living room with a revolving cast of talented friends, co-creating and, as she likes to say, communing.

This is the essence of her new album The List, a joyfully human meditation on what it is to be alive and in love; to reflect with gratitude and deep feeling on the stories that have made up her own life. If these songs feel like an intimate conversation between friends, that’s because they are. Written in a series of deeply personal sessions between Susanna and her creative partners, Dan Wilson, Edie Brickell, Ryan Lerman, Desure, Jesse Harris, Ny Oh, Grant Milliken, and producer CJ Camerieri, the music evolved from swapping stories and confessions, sharing laughter and tears, always with the kind of emotional honesty Susanna invests in her friendships and partnerships.

These songs are what happens when a close group of gifted friends and writers trust each other enough to turn real, vulnerable conversations into song. The List is utterly relatable to anyone who has ever enjoyed a sexy new crush, experienced the angst of a bad break up, had the joy of falling in love, or a fading memory of what might have been. These are Susanna’s stories, but they also belong to CJ, and Ryan, and their many collaborators. Now, they’re yours, too.