Queen Serene are back at it, getting ready to release their second album, appropriately titled 2, later this Fall. It’s an album that expands their palette into artier territory, embracing volume and repetition at times, the results both immersive and intricate. Abrasive but dynamic, their limitless noise is manifested with a tempered grace.

Throughout their debut album, Queen Serene sound fully realized, dipping between dream pop, post-punk, krautrock, shoegaze, and fuzzy indie rippers, each song offering something new. There’s cohesion in spades, but the self-titled record feels like an unraveling of ideas, expanding as it plays, providing a welcome sense of dynamics.