Fearless Love (Bonus Track Version)

With her 11th album, Melissa Etheridge pays homage to the rock annals that have long fuelled her raw, intense sound, unleashing prodigious guitar theatrics, slamming power chords and sizzling vocal textures on a set of trademark-style confessionals. She laces colossal drumbeats with guitar delay on the title track and opener, while on “The Wanting of You” she ups the intensity, moving from a low-key piano intro to huge rocking riffs. And “Nervous” is Etheridge at her swampy, bluesy best.