If you were into Mary Timony's art-pop band Helium, chances are you were also into Polvo, or, more specifically, the baroque cathedrals shared member Ash Bowie hewed from his guitar. If you were into Helium and Polvo, you probably loved intricately braided strands of melody and dissonance, art-school meets meat-and-potatoes punk a la the Breeders and Autoclave (Timony's first band), and tight packets of oblique imagery. And if you were into all of that, you were probably turned off when Timony went solo and started mining Tolkien for lyrics and Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute for musical inspiration.