Divining

After the triumph of her score for Bo Burnham’s 2018 film Eighth Grade, Scottish composer/ singer-songwriter Anna Meredith doubled down on those tween anxieties with FIBS, an album that seems to be bursting with manic glee. Relentless in pursuit of toe-curling weirdness, Meredith pushes her synths, guitars, and drums to exhilarating, claustrophobic extremes. The emotional landscape is somehow both giddy and wary, cartoonishly surreal and nightmarish, a spastic and avant-garde recreation of the Main Street Electrical Parade. —Andy Beta