Suki Waterhouse Memoir of a Sparklemuffin

Playing a keyboardist in a fictional 1970s rock band for 2023’s Daisy Jones & The Six, Suki Waterhouse regularly rehearsed with her co-stars in the same Los Angeles studio where Fleetwood Mac worked on Rumours. The English multi-hyphenate (a distinction she winks at knowingly on “Model, Actress, Whatever”) had been quietly releasing hazy indie pop since 2016, but the role gave Waterhouse the spark to throw herself into music head-on. On her second studio album, named for a species of spider that’s cute but twisted when it comes to mating, the singer-songwriter connects the dots between mid-century girl groups, Laurel Canyon psychedelia, mid-’90s Mazzy Star (particularly on “To Get You,” a cosmic country wallower co-written by Cigarettes After Sex’s Greg Gonzalez), and Lana Del Rey circa Chemtrails Over the Country Club. Between messy, honest songs like “Supersad” and “Blackout Drunk” emerges a nostalgic portrait of the last of the old-fashioned It girls, cool but not too cool to get her hands a little dirty.