With crystalline pop textures, Pink Nasty’s new self-titled album evokes a suburban summertime when sensations of emptiness and yearning develop their own kind of sensuality.

“WOEBEGONE” by Danbert Nobacon and The Bad Things. The album is a fictional sort-of-musical noir tracking the early years of Johnny Woebegone and Lilithiana Red, songs of oil, sex, death and other worldliness, in the rapidly decaying world of the mid-2020′s.

Welding the propulsive grace of ancient fiddle styles to disarmingly open-hearted original pop songs, Laura Cortese has emerged among the most intriguing and versatile, musicians in the bountiful New England post-folk scene.

The latest in a long lineage of Memphis musicians to grab the mantle of funky, soul-jazz instrumentals pioneered by acts like Booker T & the MGs, Willie Mitchell & The Bar-Kays.