Sarah Tudzin is in high demand these days. Not only is she a lauded engineer and producer who has helmed recent records by boygenius, Weyes Blood, and Speedy Ortiz, but her own band, Illuminati Hotties, has also emerged as one of the sharpest and most sensitive acts on the pop-punk side of indie rock this century—“tenderpunk,” she has often called it. On Illuminati Hotties’ radiant and bittersweet third LP, Power, Tudzin pairs that sense of modern professional busyness with scenes inspired by the extreme highs and lows of her personal life in recent years. To wit, the day before Tudzin released 2020’s surprise Free I.H, her mother died. But weeks before that, Tudzin had met the person who has since become her longtime partner, the one with whom she can share all these troubles. It’s not hard to imagine, then, all that propels Power.