The candor of those personal recollections extends to gentler territory: first love, first lust, and how the past can leave them entangled. Twain exalts the heady whirlwind of being “young and dumb and in a rush” on the thumping gospel track “New Love,” which ends on a honeyed fiddle refrain. That same full-body flush morphs into sultrier blues-rock on “Faded Blue Jeans,” all steaminess and thrill. Singing with Queen of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, she recounts the lightning bolt of desire at 17, a growl in her voice made all the more surprising considering that she has sung more often about the power dynamics of sex than its pleasures.






