With a sound that Rolling Stone describes as “an aching, lusty set of twang and sneer wrapped in electric guitar swagger,” roots-rocker Lydia Loveless is as celebrated for her salacious, lyrical wisecracks as she is for the honey-sweet voice that delivers them. Her 2016 breakthrough, Real, moves between rowdy honky-tonk and spunky pop, a showcase of surprising styles and influences (think Robyn, Taylor Swift, and Cyndi Lauper) for the Ohio-born songwriter who now calls Morrisville, North Carolina her home. Loveless pens high-minded songs about low-brow culture, dispatching vivid tales of tumult with torchy, infectious choruses.