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