spacey

On songs like “Slushy” and “Predictable Girl,” she intertwines a menagerie of robotic, spacey sirens with tinges of Jersey club beats and ’90s-influenced R&B chords.

But Tortoise has always had an equally prominent fondness for softer textures, especially those found in spacey acts from Germany such as Tangerine Dream and Cluster.

Over spacey sirens and an accumulating bass line, on “Broken,” she admits to being “a fool / acting all cool” and being on her knees, without a sense of faith.

Songs are by turns epic, edgy, spacey and insistent.

Its spacey bass line, Afro background vocals and subtle melodic effects are complemented by Pabön’s rapping.