“Road trip album” usually connotes an element of escape from everyday life, but on Highway to Hell, the journey is in the ordinary and inescapable. While Emily Moales’ earlier works as Star Moles fixated on science fiction and Medieval literature, she’s come down to earth on her latest record, using stripped-back psychedelia to mythologize the mundane.
On Highway to Hell, Moales sounds looser and more confident than she ever has, exhibiting a counterintuitive control, the kind that only comes by letting go. Oftentimes, the most self-assured lyrics on Highway to Hell are the ones delivered with the least certainty. Moales makes for a sympathetic and keenly observant narrator, deeply tapped into the universe she’s at…

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