After a four-year interval,
Givers
follow up their bright and driving debut album,
In Light
, with the colorfully thoughtful
New Kingdom
. While the album sounds more serious in tone, it's still carried by ebullient world folk and African percussion influences, rich vocal harmonies, and wide-ranging instrumentation, including glitzy electronics. Easygoing complexity is the name of the game in the catchy melodies and dance-friendly rhythms of such ambitiously constructed songs as the album's lead single, "Bermuda." ~ Marcy Donelson