Iranian-American songstress Haale brilliantly combines elements from her Persian heritage and her NYC upbringing to deliver, after several well-received EPs, an epic debut album. The Middle Eastern influences fully integrate with Haale’s powerful vocal histrionics and her experimental downtown NY pop instincts pay great homage to the psychedelic timbres of the 1960s. This is highly dramatic music where her message often calls for spiritual uplift while her orchestrated chords signal either the hand of doom (“Zero to One”) or an extended hypnotic state (“Hastee”). While Led Zeppelin most famously flirted with these textures and introduced them to mainstream rock audiences with “Kashmir,” Haale goes far deeper, singing in multi-lingual tongues, using English as a starting point, occasionally evolving into Sufi poetry. The album’s closer, “Town on the Sea,” begins standard enough before navigating trickier time signatures and exotic melodic dives. “Off Duty Fortune Teller” has the makings of a modern blues lament, with electric sitar added for exotic effect.