As part of the gospel-infused band Gabriels, Lusk has the rare gift of an immensely powerful voice that neither overpowers the material nor shrinks from it.
On her début LP, “Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?,” the poet and singer-songwriter makes music that is spare yet expansive and able to surprise.
The first full-length album from Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus evinces a preëmptive nostalgia for the honeymoon phase of creative collaboration.
On “Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd,” the artist asks lofty questions with an earnestness that’s sometimes sublime and sometimes a bit dippy.
Marc Anthony Thompson, with the musical collective Chocolate Genius, produced some of the great confessional songs of the nineties. But critics seemed eager to define the project by what it wasn’t.