Anyone straining to keep up with the career of Joel Ford is given a welcome opportunity to get entangled in his various musical impulses on . Ford is best known as one half of Ford & Lopatin, a duo who managed to find an awkward kind of parity in bulbous funk tracks, 1980s cheese-rock, retro-futurist pop, and the methadone gleam of new age. His work additionally extends to a part as bassist in Brooklyn soft-rock outfit Tigercity, and to his solo project Airbird. The latter gained notice for the "City vs Mountains" single in 2011, the title of which acted as a literalist representation of Ford's residential rotation between New York City and North Carolina. It was his most overt pop move since the excellent 2010 single "Strawberry Skies", released under the proto-Ford & Lopatin moniker Games. But edges away from repetition, dipping out of outright pop and looping back around to encompass all the other influences winding through his brain.