After working on her previous albums with the likes of Toro y Moi’s Chaz Bear and Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack, Madeline Kenney recorded her fourth album, 2023’s A New Reality Mind, alone in her basement. The follow-up, Kiss from the Balcony, finds her working collaboratively again, this time with percussionist Ben Sloan (the National, Why?), who brought electronic elements and a background in sound design to the two weeks of sessions, and Stephen Patota (Flocks, Why?), who contributed melodic guitar lines as well as acoustic elements. The through lines across Kenney’s solo output have been her articulate, angular vocal lines and highly textured indie art-pop style, a sound that manages to remain distinctive, even in the presence (or absence) of such…