Free of rock star dreams, the latest music from Shudder to Think’s Craig Wedren tackles the midlife crisis

When Craig Wedren turned 45 — “literally to the day,” he recalled with a laugh — he began to slide into what he refers to openly as a midlife crisis.

A well-regarded musician since he was his in late teens, when he formed the wildly inventive post-punk band Shudder to Think, Wedren suddenly found…