Australia's Gypsy & The Cat describe their own music with honest accuracy. Especially here: the duo's 2012 debut album, Gilgamesh, is rooted in a genre that the band coined as "semi-acoustic chillwave." But as the opening “Time to Wander” unfolds, it becomes clear that pianist Lionel Towers and guitarist/drummer Xavier Bacash are enamored with the sort of uplifting pop songcraft that fuels the fires of romance. And while many bands of this ilk gravitate toward the Stevie Nicks side of their Fleetwood Mac influences, it’s refreshing to hear a project that recognizes Christine McVie as the pop sophisticate: “The Piper's Song” swoons like it was touched by the hands of McVie and (during the song’s refrain) the late, great Bob Welch. The standout jam “Jona Vark” similarly recalls Tango in the Night–era Mac with a 21st-century production that gives Towers' and Bacash's harmonies some torn and frayed textures, à la Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. More '80s tones surface in the title track, a pulsing hit-in-waiting that leans on neon-toned new romanticism.