As the world plunges steadily into darkness, we witness daily humanity’s depraved indifference in televised acts of heinous brutality and orchestrated cruelty. At the same time, we see daily instances of righteous love in both physical and verbal response to a casual unconcern for individuals and their worlds. In the taut lyrics and raw vocals on her eighteenth studio album, ‘World’s Gone Wrong,’ Lucinda Williams viscerally evokes a bleak landscape cluttered by political and ethical blindness, overweening self-regard, corruption, broken promises, and hopelessness: a world that’s gone wrong, indeed. Embedded in her songs, though, shine glimmers of hope, reminding us that even in the midst of gloom we can find comfort in community, and in music.