Consumer Guide Album

Illuminati Hotties: Power [Hopeless, 2024]
Since it's pretty much inevitable that an entire album of songs about love that's not quite working out won't quite work out either, you have to give Sarah Tudzin credit for having the guts to risk it and condolences for the disappointments you hope she's chronicling rather than experiencing. "I'm everything you wanted except I've never been dishonest," she observes. So "I'm falling in love with somebody better," she reports—or anyway, hopes. B+