Ed Sheeran told Amy Louise Billings—monikered in the music world as Amy Shark—that if she wanted to be a pop writer, she needed to be more comfortable expressing romance. “Love Songs Ain’t For Us,” ...

Amy Shark, the Australian indie-pop star best known in the U.S. for the striking single “Adore,” is back with another winner. It’s a memorably forlorn and misty folk-pop ballad called “All the Lies ...