While her previous album, “Vulture Prince,” garnered her mountains of rapturous press as well as the Grammy, its dark, hushed moods and melancholy melodies became all the more vivid when the listener ...

W e are doing stuff that is indicative of fun,” Arooj Aftab says, quite seriously, in the flat staccato cadence of a test proctor. The Pakistani-born, Berklee-trained, Brooklyn-based musician is ...