Throughout “Karma For Cheap,” Aaron Lee Tasjan bridges the gap between light and darkness in discovery of the blissful space where both elements coexist. — Karma For Cheap might be Aaron Lee Tasjan’s most enlightened album yet. Though thematically similar to his 2016 album release, Silver Tears, touching on infamously rock and roll topics like death and selling out, Karma For Cheap offers more confidence, wisdom, and blaring psychedelic fuzz than its predecessor.

On the band’s 2019 “The Center Won’t Hold,” Sleater-Kinney shows no intention of looking back, but they refuse to leave the past without first honoring what’s been left behind. — It’s a different world now for Sleater-Kinney than it was when the trio began recording in Corin Tucker’s Portland basement in 1996. Utterly restless and brazenly unpolished, the band played musty punk-rock clubs and record stores, frequenting the same venues as other iconic riot grrl acts like Bikini Kill and…