From the moment I heard the first previews of Powerviolet’s excellent debut We Won’t Sing For You, I was smitten with their mix of massive shoegaze guitars and tight Drum & Bass beats. So imagine my surprise when I started this album and found that formula expanded to include spurts of Gameboy-ready chiptune leads, gauzy synth pads, and layers dense enough it makes their debut sound sparse.

Over the last couple years, I’ve brushed up against the two members of Powerviolet constantly on social media. Guitarist Jason Anderson and I have bonded over various post punk, new wave, punk, and death metal acts and a healthy dose of guitarist shop talk. And in that time, he’s expressed a disdain for the limits of genre—easily predicted by the breadth of the music he loves—instead allowing himself to consume and create music without concern for sonic and aesthetic boundaries. And let’s be honest: tons of artists wax philosophical about this sort of thing, and most of the time, they end up being easily pigeonholed.

But Wavelengths actually backs up Jason’s genre-transcendent aspirations. The record plays like the piled high plates of two musicians with boundless tastes at a sonic all-you-can-eat-buffet, grabbing conventions from everything they like and mixing it together without self-consciousness or concern of cohesion, like someone piling lobster tail next to a slice of deep dish pizza. Dancy new wave flirts with El Ten Eleven-influenced post rock. Stabs of techno synths chat at the bar with gliding shoegaze guitar. There are even some flashes of punk rock and industrial.

Yet for the smorgasbord of disparate flavors, it never tastes sour. This isn’t the sound of a would-be Fear Factor contestant making a Suicide at the soda machine of music. These are two expert chefs creating complex and surprising dishes with chemical precision. In a way, it feels like the remix artist Girl Talk who would create elaborate pop music collages to create music that was rewarding in its own right (and if you’ve ever seen me lose my mind to Feed the Animals you’ll know that’s high praise).

Where We Won’t Sing For You was a brilliant record itself, Wavelengths over delivers on a promise I didn’t even realize its predecessor was making.

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