While most people did whatever they could to stay occupied during the pandemic — be it baking bread, binge-watching shows, or picking up a new hobby — Jenny Lee Lindberg took advantage of the downtime to focus all of her energy into her music. Relocating to Utah for three years before recently moving back to Los Angeles, Lindberg wrote, recorded, and released her sophomore solo album Heart Tax, while tandemly putting the finishing touches on her band Warpaint’s fourth studio album, Radiate Like This. The two releases are vastly different stylistically, but they equally encapsulate her personality as a songwriter and a bass player. Heart Tax features a prominent upbeat, indie-pop feel that focuses on Lindberg’s vocals and oftentimes unorthodox bass playing — which was the final part she composed on all of the songs. Writing her bass lines last allowed her to sculpt them in different ways that alter a song’s vibe while also holding all of the components together. This effe