Musician Ella Boissonnault was hoping to come out of the pandemic into a second Roaring Twenties. Art would thrive. Music would flourish. The world would bloom with new energy, novel ideas, and joy.

“On a grade scale level, that didn’t happen,” Boissonnault told the Boston Herald. “We didn’t have a restructuring of what we think is important in society.”

“A hundred years later, everything is completely different and yet it’s the same,” she added. “We haven’t learned the lessons collectively as a society that you’d think we would have learned.”

Through her indie pop rock solo project Lady Pills, Boissonnault mused on the changes — and lack of changes — going on right now on new LP “Renowned in the Roaring Twenties.”

Lady Pills’ first album, 2022’s excellent “What I Want,” was driven by introspection. Follow-up  “Renowned in the Roaring Twenties” looks broadly at the realities of being an artist in this age — acknowledging that modern artists must also be promoters, publicists, influencers, and (cringe) “content creators.”

“Post-pandemic there was an explosion of having to be on this app and that app, and figure out how to connect with these platforms that are changing,” she said. “I’ve already been my own booking agent. I’ve already been my own manager. I’ve already done x, y, and z. Now I’m supposed to be a social media superstar that is comfortable filming myself and doing these, pardon my French, stupid (expletive) reels.”

Boissonnault rightly rages against algorithms, social media platforms, streaming royalty rates, and the corporate takeover (retakeover? increased takeover?) of the music business. This rage makes for great art.

The wonderfully jagged and towering rock of “Didn’t You” is emblematic of the album. Over the clatter of guitars and drums (that she played), she sings, “You’ve been tracking all the numbers/And didn’t you want to be the sky/Infinite and neutral.” It’s just one standout on an LP of hooky, rumbling tunes.

Despite the anger and hard contemplation in the songs, the album is fun (see those hooks). And Boissonnault is excited to release that energy to live audiences — record release shows take place April 4 at Myrtle in East Providence, April 5 at Auspicious Brew in Dover, and April 6 at the Rockwell in Somerville. Because Boissonnault plays most of the instruments on her records, arranging the tracks for her live band expands on that energy.

“I am excited to do these shows and have fun,” Boissonnault said. “To remind myself that I love music and that’s why I do this in the first place. I feel like this is a return. Like that bigger hundred year cycle, I’m cycling back to why I do that, why it is important, and how I can have fun doing it.”#

For tickets and details, visit bandcamp.com/album/renowned-in-the-roaring-twenties