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Casey Weston, a standout on Season 1 of The Voice, will release her third album on Saturday. (Jillian DeBar Photo)

Casey Weston, who came within a whisker of making the Season 1 finals, releases her third album this week.

And since it’s called “Young Heart,” what better day to drop the album than this Saturday, Feb. 14?

Casey, 22, says she thinks the album is her best yet and has gotten similar feedback from industry reps and other artists she’s shared the music with.

The album title was a natural “because all of the songs on the album are about different aspects of love, young love, and the emotional and physical expressions of the many types of love, (infatuation, heartbreak, new love, true love), that we experience in our relationships.”

Asked to share some stories behind the songs — all of which she co-wrote — she jokes that she can’t kiss and tell but assures that all eight tracks are “a mix of things I have seen, experienced, had close friends experience and, of course, hoped for in the case of true love.”

Then she kisses and tells. Well, just sort of.

“‘Waking Up’ is a song loosely written about a long-running, off-and-on relationship that took quite a while to come to grips about and finally ‘wake up’ and realize that while I really cared a lot for him, we really were too different and wanted such different things out of our lives that it just wouldn’t work,” she says.

The album also includes a collaboration with another singer who will be familiar to fans of The Voice. Amber Carrington is featured on a track called “No Strings Attached.”

Casey says she moved to Nashville after appearing on The Voice to focus on her music. Amber did the same after cracking the Top 5 in Season 4.

“We got together to do some songwriting and hit it off right away,” Casey says. “I just love her voice and when you hear the song we wrote together, I think you will be able to hear that working with Amber on this song turned out to be a really good thing.”

“Young Heart” is available for pre-order now on iTunes and from Casey’s website.

Casey also released a self-titled album in 2011, “Find the Moon” in 2013 and celebrated her birthday on Dec. 4 by releasing a single called “Fallin’ for a Lie,” which isn’t on the album.