Two decades after digital downloading was supposed to disintegrate the full-length LP, musicians seem as eager to collect and to sprawl — and sometimes to tighten up — as they’ve ever been. Tems, “Born in the Wild” One of global pop’s most distinctive new voices — and perhaps its deepest believer in the sanctity of the groove. Paul McCartney & …
Laci Kaye Booth clearly recalls the career path she’d envisioned in her head. The album opens with the sly but haunting “Cigarettes,” which digs into a pair of formative episodes in Booth’s life: leaving home as a teenager to be with a guy against her mom’s wishes — “I was all of 17, going bad-boy crazy,” she sings over a …
