Lydia Loveless has been through much in the past few years and “Daughter,” her first original album since 2016, keeps her heart on her sleeve and reveals that not all the scars have healed.

Loveless’ songs display her usual directness and fearlessness, but there’s also plenty of vulnerability.

Divorce, moving from her Ohio base to North Carolina for a new love and earlier, repeated instances of sexual harassment present different degrees of challenges and hurt and Loveless does not sidestep their effect on herself or her songs. While she has often included laugh-out-loud lines in her lyrics, they don’t seem to fit this particular kind of therapy-through-songwriting.

The title track is a real gem. It addresses the difficulties women face to be accepted for who they are, not as people whose sovereignty is considered through their relation to others, whether as daughters, mothers or sisters. Loveless is at her most Stevie Nicks-like here, backed by a rhythm section evoking the sturdy base of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.

“Love Is Not Enough” is classic Loveless, a strum fest that sounds generally defeated — “I can’t believe the worst kind of people achieve/Everything they want” — but personally hopeful, ending on an optimistic note: “Talk to me.”