On her previous album, Tasha was a rush of color in motion. The Chicago songwriter was fast approaching the end of a video game level and the inevitable change of map, power-ups, and co-players. She spoke then of her Saturn return — a stage of meteoric change you go through in your late twenties, when everything you know about yourself is reframed. She sang to old friends — sharing beach wine with Nina; eulogizing her late collaborator Eric Littmann — but also looked forward, asking the world: What’s next? She called the album All This and So Much More. She knew what was coming — her fourth full-length, You Are Spring!, arrives at the So Much More part.
First things first, Tasha left her native Chicago for an even bigger world — New York,…