Thalia Zedek has been a voice of resilience and strength for most of the 21st century, in a solo career that has now stretched to seven full-length albums. Her rough, keening alto carries the hardest of sentiments; her band storms and surges, billowing up under the verses and crashing in release at the choruses. She sounds always real, always besieged, but always sure of getting through. This time in cathartic “Tsunami,” she confides, “You were so certain/that it’s curtains/but I’m not so sure.”
For all her post-punk credentials — Come, Live Skull among the highlights — Zedek has always leaned into sounds more common in Americana. David Michael Curry’s violin was a defining feature of the first iteration of her band,…