Originally from Cleveland and now based in San Diego, singer-songwriter Tamar Berk’s latest long player, Tiny Injuries, displays the evolution of Berk’s sound out of the realm of ’90s-laced alt-rock into an array of sonic styles, simultaneously more developed and complex. The album’s title refers to all the little emotional wounds we collect traveling through life. The accumulation of hurts is a self-sustaining process. The first accretion is slow but increases over time and according to direction. Cumulatively, they exhaust our energy, destroy our patience, restrict our scope of creativity, ruin our pleasure, and leave us fragile and desiccated. As Berk explains, “And it’s not about ‘poor me.’ Everyone internalizes these injuries, and none of them are ‘tiny.’” Rather than succumbing to th...