The cathartic, restless project of singer/songwriter Hether Fortune, Wax Idols has confronted the shadowy sides of mortality and sexuality in new and challenging ways on every album. She winked at them with the snotty punk-pop of 2011's No Future; stared them down on 2013's Discipline + Desire, a ferocious album of post-punk inspired by her time as a dominatrix; and ultimately embraced them on 2015's darkly anthemic American Tragic. By the time Wax Idols released Happy Ending in 2018, the sense of growth and acceptance in Fortune's music was so profound that it removed some of...