Long Way Home LP

Stella Lefty didn't really need a debut album by the time Long Way Home arrived, not after a run of singles and a widely noticed Lollapalooza set had already done most of the introducing. The record leans into plainspoken, country-inflected songwriting about love and leaving home, with "Boston" doing a lot of the early lifting as one of the songs that built her audience in the first place. It's a first album walking in with more momentum than most debuts get.