When I recently spoke with Central Arkansas singer-songwriter Adam Faucett on the phone, it was a warm and humid day in Richmond, Virginia, where I live. I wanted to talk with him about his terrific new album, “New Variations of the Reaper.” It was the first day of fall, but it felt like summer. Regardless, seasonal change is coming, and Faucett is fall weather music — like the Zombies or Neko Case or the Sadies or “Led Zeppelin III.” Maybe it’s because I first started listening to his music in the fall of 2018. Perhaps it just somehow fits the season. Fall is crisp, darker, moodier. Once the dead leaves start swirling around, it’s an especially good time for Faucett’s brand of haunted songcraft.

It’s been seven years since Faucett’s last album, “It Took the Shape of a Bird.” Around the

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