Kevin Bronson on February 8th, 2012

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On her first couple of releases, Nite Jewel’s astral explorations in synth-pop imagined a space-age lounge, the kind of dive George Jetson might escape to in his flying car to drown his sorrows after a family squabble. Songstress Ramona Gonzalez’s forthcoming release for Secretly Canadian, “One Second of Love,” is not the stuff of gin joints; the album (due March 6) is a sophisticated, still-futuristic take on electronic R&B that fuses deep grooves and her increasingly sultry vocals. Gonzalez seems to have a lot to say about matters of the heart, and on this album she comes through loud and clear and even a little bit mesmerizing.

||| Stream: “In the Dark”:

||| Also: Stream the title track via Soundcloud.

||| Live: Nite Jewel opens for Chairlift on April 11 at the Troubadour.