WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Neneh Cherry’s career path has been marvelously circuitous. She had international pop hits like “Buffalo Stance” in the late 1980s and early 1990s and ventured through post-punk, hip-hop, jazz and an array of collaborations with Tricky, Youssou N’Dour, Chrissie Hynde and Cher, among many others. “Broken Politics,” her new studio album — only her fifth under her own name — loops back and leaps ahead at the same time.

Cherry, who is 54, made “Broken Politics” in this music-loving Catskills town, where she was a regular visitor in the mid-1970s. She recorded in the studio of a lifelong friend, the vibraphonist and teacher Karl Berger, who started the Creative Music Studio in 1971. The participants there in the ’70s included the trumpeter Don Cherry, Neneh’s stepfather, who was a member of Ornette Coleman’s groundbreaking free-jazz quartet and a perpetual musical explorer. And the album’s producer is a current resident: Kieran Hebden, 40, the Englishman better known as the prolific electronic musician Four Tet.

“Broken Politics” was recorded in February 2017, a month after the inauguration of President Trump. “I don’t even want to mention his name or see his bloody hand movements,” Cherry said in September via Skype from Ibiza, in a speaking voice an octave below where she usually sings. “I just lose it. But I feel like, O.K., maybe I can get something from feeling this upset.”

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In Cherry’s lyrics, fraught issues — refugees (“Kong”), abortion (“Black Monday”), guns (“Shotgun Shack”), disinformation (“Faster Than the Truth”), women’s rights (“Soldier”) — jostle with personal reflections in tracks that are most often meditative, not strident. “It’s my politics living in a slow jam,” she coos in the album’s pivotal song, “Synchronized Devotion.” As she has since her 1989 solo debut album, “Raw Like Sushi,” Cherry wields her convictions in lithe, airy melodies.