‘I Used to Be Very Cringe’

Charlie Puth’s Whatever’s Clever!, due March 27, is his fourth album, but in some ways, it feels more like a debut. The collection is his best work yet, built around an entirely new approach — airy, jazzy, live-instrument-driven production that tends to land somewhere between Bruce Hornsby’s “The Way It Is” and Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature.” Puth … Read more