Nina Ryser — of Palberta, @, and Nina Ryser fame — has a new solo album out today, and it may be the most fascinating record you hear this week. Water Giants finds the Philly musician venturing all over the map, from heady electronic instrumentals to scrappy indie-pop tunes, injecting it all with a common sensibility. With songs like the surging electro-pop track “Cuz You,” the strings-and-piano ditty “You Are What You Eat,” and the wobbly synth excursion “Piggy Boys” crammed together into the same tracklist, it makes perfect sense with the junkyard twee of “Beauty In Grime” levels off into a droning ambient sketch.

The Philadelphia-based DIY musician Nina Ryser, formerly of Palberta and currently of @, will release her new solo album Water Giants next month. We’ve already posted its first single, the discordant experimental pop song “Things I Claim.” Today, she follows that one with an even more experimental and discordant pop song. “Underestimate” is a noisy, dizzy little number that’s full of hammering bass and shrieking strings. Ryser’s former Palberta bandmate Ani Ivry-Block directed its video. Here’s what Ryser says about it:

The Philadelphia-based musician Nina Ryser is a longtime fixture on the DIY scene. She was one third of Palberta, and now she plays drums in @, among other things. Ryser also releases her own solo music; she came out with her EP I Miss My Dog last year. Now, Ryser is announcing a new solo album called Water Giants, and she’s shared its first single.

Picture it: a post-quarantine, early autumn afternoon, sun shining in waves across rolling green hills. Reunited friends, both human and animal, frolic together in piles of crisp, golden leaves. It’s not a dream, but the sweet, pastoral setting of “The Cow,” a song from Palberta’s fifth and latest album, Palberta5000.