David Udell’s ‘It’s Worth It’ is a wonderfully weird pop/psych-rock concoction that bubbles with an expansive, really cool ’70s vinyl euphoria.

Carl Weingarten’s long embrace of technology has paid off handsomely in the making of ‘Ember Days,’ an album with his signature pristine sound and the perfect, stress-relieving, soul-satisfying elixir for these trying times.