Brandishing a sharp tongue and a bright pop/rock edge, Kirsty Lee Akers packs her country songs with equal parts punchlines and hooks. The Nashville-based Aussie singer/songwriter is especially scathing on 2016’s stormy “Burn Baby Burn,” telling her unfaithful lover “I hope it hurts” when he gets his comeuppance. Her 2008 single “Knocked Up” is more playfully acerbic, describing a reputation-ruining “belly full of baby and a shotgun wedding” before slide guitar and fiddle kick in. Always one for updating country traditions, Akers even covered John Prine and Iris DeMent’s classic tongue-in-cheek duet “In Spite of Ourselves” with indie-pop star Bob Evans.