Lucy Gooch first appeared with a handful of EPs which focused on her ethereal, multi-layered vocals, melding ambient and dream pop with melodies echoing folk traditions. Desert Window is her first full-length, and it’s a more fleshed-out expansion of her sound, incorporating more acoustic instrumentation as well as more complex choral harmonies.
“Like Clay” opens the album with chiming guitars and wordless chanting, providing the backdrop for a brief verse about waking up from a deep sleep. The two-part “Night Window” is more ambitious and progressive, with brightly droning synths and more obscured vocals, as well as wistful saxophone and bubbling electronic pulsations. The second half features a particularly…

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