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PJ Harvey: I Inside the Old Year Dying PTKF (auditioned as 16/44.1 FLAC stream on Qobuz). 2023. Produced by PJ Harvey, Flood, and John Parish. Performance **** Sonics **** In 2022, PJ Harvey published an epic poem called Orlam. Harvey's 10th studio album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, isn't exactly a musical setting of Orlam's English- and Dorset-dialect poetry; rather, it's an interpretation of the poem with added improvisation. The result is as bizarre and fascinating as one could hope.

Natalie Merchant: Keep Your Courage Nonesuch (16/44.1 stream, Qobuz). 2023. Natalie Merchant, prod.; David Snyder, eng. Performance **** Sonics **** On Keep Your Courage, Natalie Merchant sounds like a 59-year-old woman who has been through some rough health. But that reflection of reality is what makes Keep Your Courage so good: Merchant refuses to hide her humanity and openly celebrates her distinctive, poetic mind while pondering the mysteries of love and the innate strength of women.

One woman died and one person was injured after a single-vehicle wreck north of West Yellowstone on Friday.

John Lee Hooker: Burnin' Vee Jay/Craft Recordings CR00544 (LP). 2023. No prod. or eng. listed. Performance ***** Sonics **** Though it's often forgotten in the wake of Motown's success, there was also a blues scene in Detroit in which no one loomed larger than John Lee Hooker. Cut at a single session in 1962 in Chicago, Burnin' has been reissued by Craft on 180gm vinyl.

Weyes Blood: And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow Sub Pop (16/44.1, Qobuz). 2022. Natalie Mering and Jonathan Rado, prods.; Kenny Gilmore, eng. Performance ***** Sonics **** "These songs may not be manifestos or solutions, but I know they shed light on the meaning of our contemporary disillusionment." So says singer-songwriter Natalie Mering about her latest album under the name Weyes Blood (pronounced like "wise," a tribute to a novel by Flannery O'Connor).