内容摘要：Britain’s King Charles III, patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Queen Camilla visit the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday May 19, 2025. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP)

Britain’s King Charles III, patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Queen Camilla visit the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday May 19, 2025. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP)

The album is never revelatory, but there are surprises: like theWallen’s also a traditionalist — in the weeping guitars of “Falling Apart,” the backroads balladry of “Skoal, Chevy, and Browning,” where chewing tobacco and hunting gear has never sounded so ... romantic? Most of his songs deal with heartbreak and self-deprecation with lyrical specificity and a total lack of pretension, appealing to both a fluid listenership and country radio loyalists looking for something familiar enough.

In full, “I’m The Problem” is 37-tracks, running nearing two hours long. It’s exhaustive but only exhausting for the active listener — just like his last two, which also topped 30 tracks. His style hasn’t detoured too much from his previous work, giving new credence to not fixing what isn’t broke. The album plays out like a soundtrack to a road trip, effortless and pleasant background music.Then, of course, is the financial incentive: Longer albums equate to more streams, and streams often account for far more of an album’s chart position than downloads and purchases.All that aside, everything Wallen does, including the release of this new album, is inextricable from his controversies. Despite them — or perhaps, partially because of, for

interested in bad boys with real talent — Wallen has become one of the biggest performers in the United States, underestimated by a mainstream music media that often regionalizes country music culture.And there have been a number of controversies. In 2020, he was arrested on public intoxication and disorderly conduct charges after being kicked out of

bar in downtown Nashville. In 2021, after video surfaced of him

, he was disqualified or limited from several award shows and received no Grammy nominations for his bestselling “Dangerous: The Double Album.” He’sand throbbing percussion can sometimes brighten the mood.

from the American rock band Garbage, “Let All That We Imagine Be the Light.” Due for release Friday, it’s the sound of frontwoman Shirley Manson pushed to the brink by health issues and the fury of our times.The band’s familiar sonic mix provides a pathway out of the darkness, with heavy riffing and dramatic atmospherics accompanying Manson’s alluring alto.

“This is a cold cruel world,” she sings on the crunchy “Love to Give.” “You’ve gotta find the love where you can get it.”The album is Garbage’s eighth and the first since 2021’s “No Gods No Masters.” The genesis came last August, when Manson aggravated an old hip injury, abruptly ending the band’s world tour.