Alex Lilly

There's a whole world of kaleidoscopic sound inside the head of Alex Lilly, front-lady and songwriter for the Los Angeles pop ensemble Obi Best. On the group's entrancing debut Capades, Lilly fills her eccentric songs of transoceanic yearnings, hidden fantasies and anonymous spite with a twinkling cosmos of a production job. You'll hear some of the whirring analog synths and Bacharach hooks favored by The Bird and the Bee, for whom Lilly sings backup on tour. But the vision is hers alone, and it's a loopy, subtly dark and transportive one. Capades is out now on Social Science Records. Several tracks have been placed on Alter Eco on Discovery's Planet Green channel.