For Week 2, IE welcomes Little Obsessions, the umbrella moniker for the polymathic creativity of Mara Appel Des Lauriers. Behind her Yamaha PSR keyboard, Mara constructs burbling melodies and lyrical vulnerability, channeling baroque psychedelia through synth-pop aesthetics.

Then, 1980s Seattle underground veterans LXD merge Lori Eschler’s cinematic sensibility (as pianist, cellist, and a former collaborator of David Lynch's) with the scrappy guitar and tape loop textures by Dale Flattum (of Steel Pole Bath Tub and Novex). The result is what they call a “soundtrack to reconnection.”