Kevin Bronson on March 11th, 2022

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Few musical artists can boast a resumé as diverse of Gaby Moreno’s. She has moved between genres as easily as changing shoes and sings in four languages. She has produced, composed for film, done voice work for the Disney children’s TV series “Elena of Avalor,” duetted with the likes of Cuban singer Omara Portuondo and California staple Jackson Browne, performed in tribute to David Bowie with his former band members, and earned Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations (winning one of the latter).

Her latest album, 2019’s “¡Spangled!,” was a collaboration with the eternally curious and virtuosic Van Dyke Parks, so one might expect a certain breadth to any project Moreno tackles.

Her forthcoming seventh album, “Alegoría,” doesn’t figure to disappoint. Featuring songs in English and Spanish with contributions from guitarists Marc Ribot and Davíd Garza, it’s a collection in which “each song sets a different mood,” the native Guatemalan says. “A rocker, a lament, a lullaby, a simple happy song. I can only hope there’s a little something for everyone.”

On the first track, “Nobody’s Wrong,” Moreno leads with a rock punch — slightly countrified, vocally warm and more than a little bit timely. “Musically, I felt I needed something where I could just let loose and bring out this other side of me which is heavily influenced by blues and rock,” she says. “I had this guitar riff for a while and brought it to my friend Adam Levy, who had heard Joe Walsh say ‘Nobody’s wrong’ in an interview.

“The song is just about carrying on with your life and not getting sucked in by all the drama that two very different, but very valid points of view, can create.”

||| Stream: “Nobody’s Wrong”

||| Previously: “The Immigrants” (with Van Dyke Parks)