After two abbreviated releases she likens to experimentalist haikus, the singular 25-year-old artist refined her voice and expanded her collaborations to create a stunning, singular debut.
Wilson talks about working with The Black Keys' drummer, her extensive musical background and why she wouldn't want to make music anywhere but Nashville.
"You are something and you make a choice in your life, like, 'This is going to be great' — and then it happens, and you're kind of like, 'This is more stressful than I imagined.' "
More than three decades after the death of her parents, Moorer has a new memoir and companion album, both called Blood, about her abusive father and the emotional scars of being orphaned at 14.
"We weren't going to try and be this constructed ideal of femininity," the Slit's guitarist says of the band. Albertine's memoir is To Throw Away Unopened. Originally broadcast July 16, 2018.