While her music has always been lyric-driven, this is her first album after receiving her MFA in writing. Her fifth and latest release, Goners, is an album for “thinkers and feelers,” one about grief, catharsis, and coping. It’s both literal and metaphorical, teetering on the edge of magical realism, with shapeshifting humans, hauntings, and ghosts. The songs feel heavier, weighted down with ponderous rumination about mortality and our inevitable end.