Monica Lionheart + Carol Cee + Seasonal Beast

Singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Monica Lionheart layers her frosty voice over wafty electropop in a manner that suggests dry ice—and lots of it—plus St. Vincent, and early Cure records interpreted by a tropicalia singer. It's gorgeous stuff, in other words. She hits Rough Trade to ring in the release of her sophomore effort, Missed Connections.