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Singer/songwriter
' sophomore effort, 2011's
, was a gorgeous collection of subdued, ethereal textures and melancholic hooks. Guest vocals from
frontman
on one track didn't hurt when it came to drawing attention to this lesser-known artist, but her haunted blend of
chamber indie instrumentation and lushly sad songwriting stood on its own throughout the album. Three years and a relocation from Brooklyn to Northern California later,
returns with third album
, branching out into an entirely different direction from the ghostly sounds that came before it. With the exception of
' soaring vocals, often layered in bounding walls of harmony on top of each other, the album is almost completely incomparable to previous work, the soft-spoken acoustic arrangements left behind for multicolored samples, electronic beats, and interjections of synthesizers and washed-out guitars. This drastic change of sound is aided by production from notable chillwave/electronic mavens
and
, offering beats that feel crisp and at times enormous in their scope. The remarkably catchy "Higher" sounds like a hybrid of
's sunny loops and a huskier version of
' impressionistic electropop. The lazy lope of "Love Ices Over" experiments with some of the same architecture of vocal snippets that made
's
so interesting, lacing wordless coos over a gliding palette of
melodies. ~ Fred Thomas