On his new album, How to Quit Smoking, Fike sketches out his anxieties while keeping his music refreshingly catchy

Across How to Quit Smoking, it’s clear that Dominic Fike has mastered the art of a distinctively Dominic Fike sound. It’s in his distorted, sunburned guitars, in the quake of his voice as he sing-raps, in all of the Florida nostalgia baked into his lyrics. This is his third album, but it doesn’t feel so far removed from the 22-year-old kid who sparked a label war after uploading low-fi songs to SoundCloud in the late 2010s — and who went wildly viral for hits like “3 Nights” and “Babydoll,” the latter of which is still sitting high on the charts. The angst and anguish and the ability to come up with a damn good hook are still there, even if the pressures and the stress of adulthood have taken on aching new heights.

How to Quit Smoking finds Fike at 30, now a dad and still figuring a lot of things out.…