For most of her career, experimental electronic producer Laurel Halo (born Ina Cube) has been comfortable and confident making music on her own. The work she’s made since 2010 has been completely self-assured, working with sonic palettes that range from the thrusting techno (as seen on her Detroit-inspired 2013 EP Behind the Green Door) to the soupy ebb and flow of her 2012 debut, Quarantine.
But after the release of her last album, 2013’s Chance of Rain, Halo started nudging open the gate to allow some other voices into her world. Her collaborators have been an impressively varied bunch of folks, including a live performance with former Velvet Underground member John Cale and a multimedia art project featuring Hatsune Miku, an animated pop star who’s huge in Japan.