Rating > 7

Who? NYC-via-Michigan fiction writer/composer who creates music for film and dance productions; has played live with the Danielson Famile.

Sounds like: A richly varied collection of electronic compositions abounding with dramatic melodies and eccentric textures.

How is it? Billed as “programmatic songs for the animals of the Chinese Zodiac,” the album also works simply as exotic bedroom electronica.

Kindred spirits: her space holiday, Add N To (X), Nobukazu Takemura