Deradoorian, "The Expanding Flower Planet" (Anticon). A few years ago the artist Angel Deradoorian relocated to Los Angeles from Baltimore, and she's since melded into the city's already rich experimental pop scene. Best known for her work with Dirty Projectors, Deradoorian was tapped by beat producer Flying Lotus to sing on "Siren Song," from his 2014 album, "You're Dead!," and has appeared on recordings by U2, Matmos, Charli XCX, the Roots and Vampire Weekend.
"The Expanding Flower Planet," though, is nearly all Deradoorian. She wrote it, sings it and performs most of it, and across 10 songs rich with keyboards, floating rhythms and layers of the artist's smoky, pitch-perfect voice, Deradoorian builds cubist pop with refracted structures but memorable melodies.