"I have never felt more open and more raw in my entire life," Bareilles said in a statement. "2012 was a year of deconstruction for me personally. I have been confronting some of my greatest fears in the last handful of months and have been amazed at how empowered I can feel when I muster up the courage to turn and growl back at those monsters under the bed."

Bareilles gives these monsters a new life on songs like "Brave," the first single from the album, which drops April 23.