Tokyo netscape nightingale Sapphire Slows’ sophomore flight expands on the spider web tone-bank nocturnes of 2011’s True Breath EP, with headier, haunted highs and eerier, elegant depths. Pieced together across 2012, and inspired by everything from St. Etienne’s plasticine euro-house, J-Pop memories, Blue Bell Knoll, and the saddest Section 25 remixes, Allegoria swirls and spirals through ten textural electronic melancholias composed in, and for, solitude.

The record grows more reflective and insular as it goes on, ebbing from Casio ghost-dub (“Dry Fruits,” “Third Party”) to fragile sleepwalker techno (“Corekill,” “Fade Out”) before dissolving into even weightless 4 AM pop-ambient abstractions (“Break Control,” “Meteor”). An effortless fusion of emotive and exploratory impulses, arranged in a blue-lit rock garden in the heart of urban infinity. SS speaks: “Darkness no one can enter; only listening to this album lets you into my real world.”

Black vinyl LPs mastered by Andrew Veres in monochromatic body jewelry artwork by Natasha Ghosn.