is the label debut for , the project of keyboardist , and fourth album overall from the band (other members include drummer ). Despite the label move, it's a follow-up both stylistically and thematically to 2018's , as it revisits themes of displacement, isolation, and connection. The act of being uprooted is a major influence and bittersweet legacy of the songwriter's family going back multiple generations: her grandmother was displaced following the Partition of India, and her mother was an Indian refugee from Uganda. Sonically speaking, it's a similarly colored but higher-contrast outing, with additional collaborators including, among others, multiple string players, woodwind ( , ) and percussionist ). was co-produced by and 's . It opens with the a cappella vocal line "Going nowhere fast now," before establishing a delicate electronic-acoustic palette built from rhythmic, plucked tones, humming keys, woodwinds, electronic drums, and layered vocals. The song's soft-spoken, yearning tone persists throughout the record, which approaches wistful electro-pop on "Siren," delicate art rock on tracks like "Clouds Rest," the -evoking "My Best Self," and lyrical electro-folk-rock on "Blinking Light." Any variances are subtle, however, as invites listeners into a reliably reflective, composed space. The album closes with the ghostly, theatrical "Window Place" ("My life feels like a window/The view is changed"). A reassuring power ballad, it's rooted in electric piano but, in tune with the rest of the tracks, shaded with enigmatic atmosphere. ~ Marcy Donelson