Listening to an Asher White record, you get the sense that she approaches songwriting like an interior designer. She treats her songs like rooms she can move throughout, rearranging their furniture — pushing the couch from one corner to another, angling a chair ever so slightly in a different direction.
“The sink thank you,” which opens her latest album, 8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living, comes together like move-in day, starting as an empty room with nothing but some muffled, tentative strings before other additions begin to fill the space: slot machine sound effects, snare drums, faraway chimes, a thumping bassline, keys that sound straight out of Fiona Apple’s “Valentine,” a smattering of handclaps; until finally, White’s…

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