Ex:Re: Save As (Ltd. edition silver vinyl) LP

There is no grand, overarching storyline to "Save As", the second solo album from Elena Tonra's Ex:Re project. Rather, the album is the latest in the Daughter lead-singer's catalogue of expert chronicles of the gnawing minutiae of human consciousness: the over-thinking that consumes us, and the places we travel to escape. The title of album opener "Radio Station", which begins with stately strummed acoustic guitar and morphs into a trippy song about an endless California roadtrip, is a metaphor for how Tonra feels about her mind. Other tracks, such as the stand-out "Am I Even Real?", a Tonra-Prynn duet on which Tonra sings about spaceships to ask whether she is being true to herself in a relationship, found their true version in the studio. That combination of long-held ideas stored in notebooks and on laptops with unfiltered first thoughts and improvisations is key to the album's perfect mingling of liveliness and deep thoughtfulness.