Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles.

Liz Linder Liz Linder

Sarah Borges’ previous album, Silver City, was a little alt-country gem with an aesthetic that mixed big-city sheen with cry-in-your-beer songwriting. And the latest disc by Borges and her band, The Broken Singles, only gets better from there.

Diamonds in the Dark leads off with the exuberant country-rock version of the original “The Day We Met,” and goes on to include elements of classic Nashville jukebox material (“Around 9” and a cover of Dolly Parton’s “False Eyelashes”), swamp pop (a cover of Dale and Grace’s “Stop and Think It Over”) and even Southern rock (the original “Lonely Town of Love”). And stick around for a gorgeous, echoing reading of Tom Waits’ “Blind Love,” all hallmarked with Borges’ chirp and guitarist Mike Castellana’s twang.

All these elements were from Borges’ musical upbringing. With a father who was into Lynyrd Skynyrd and a mother who loved Dylan, all she needed was band members who introduced her to country giants such as Kitty Wells and Merle Haggard.

And of course, there was X. The pioneering Los Angeles punk band always had more than a dash of country music in their sound, particularly in the interplay of the voices of John Doe and Exene Cervenka, and later albums and side projects made the link more explicit. Borges, a Taunton, Mass., native who lives in Boston, calls X “my favorite band ever,” and she includes a cover of their “Please Come Back to Me” on the new record, whose title comes from the lyrics to that song.

X “kind of changed the way I think about music,” says Borges, 28. “The thing I like best about them is that they’re so accessible. Exene can’t really sing, but they just have a lot of firepower behind them.”

While Diamonds in the Dark, like Silver City, was produced by Boston studio ace Paul Q. Kolderie, there’s a muscle and sheen to the current record’s sound that the previous one only hinted at. Borges says that Silver City was recorded “in fits and starts” at two different studios over a year, whereas Diamonds in the Dark was recorded while locked away in one studio for eight weeks over the past winter.

And she’s just happy the record has been released. “It’s crazy; I woke up this morning and I had a record out. … It takes you so long to make the damn thing, and now it’s really out.”

Speaking of firepower, Borges and the band have a lot more of it on the business end since signing to Sugar Hill Records, the roots-music and bluegrass label that’s home to stalwarts such as Sonny Landreth and The Seldom Scene.

“They have a really good audience for their entire catalogue, so we were really happy to sign with them,” Borges says, and the organizational muscle of having, well, an organization behind you, are obvious. “It’s just manpower,” Borges says. “You can have a little bit more time to focus on music, rather than the business end.”

They’ll be focusing plenty on music for the foreseeable future: Borges says their independent touring was the main factor in building an audience, which in turn convinced Sugar Hill to take a chance on them. But while a few local shows a year are a must, the tour they’re embarking on with the release of the new record (which came out Tuesday) is more extensive than anything they’ve done before: seven weeks, coast to coast.

“This is the longest we’ve been out; it’s a little daunting. … It’s tiring mostly. But it’s so much fun that you forget you’re tired.”

Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles play at the Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St., Fall River, tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Jimmy Ryan and Hayride open the show. Tickets are $12 in advance, $14 the day of the show. Call (508) 324-1926.