For anyone versed in the Early Day Miners’ earlier work where the atmospherics leaned towards the dark end of the street, 2009’s The Treatment should come as a surprise, if not quite a shock. Fast-motoring tracks such as the ironically titled “So Slowly” and the funk-fortified “The Surface of Things” still retain enough of their eerie reverb-ed, otherworldly afterglow to qualify as Early Day Miners fare, but the addition of a brand new rhythm section does remove them from the likes of Low and other slo-core bands and throws them into an alternative “pop” realm that includes Band of Horses and even My Morning Jacket. This diverse playground leaves plenty of room for piano and synth breaks that repeat the pleasures of ‘70s-era Eno and Bowie with an introvert’s reflective twist. It wouldn’t be shocking to discover simple folk songs surfacing underneath all the glitzy shines of electric guitars and falsetto harmonies. It’s fairly evident that there are pop songs (“Spaces,” “How to Fall”) and modest goth pieces (“Becloud”) here already.