“I am looking for a woman who’s not writhing in her weakness,” Sieser sings. She then unfolds lyrics full of imagery, a gavel to the guts, a line of men tied together by cord and led through town as ...

“The Grace,” from The Almighty Yellow Star’s eponymous debut album, begins with a flourish of lush sound that grows and fades away. Out of it emerges a stately guitar, steady yet unresolved. Kierstin ...