Kevin Bronson on October 22nd, 2015

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It’s been almost a decade since dream-pop duo Devics released their last album, but the core duo of singer Sara Lov and pianist-composer Dustin O’Halloran are back together on “Trains,” one the dreamiest tracks on Lov’s new album “Some Kind of Champion.” The album, out Oct. 30, is Lov’s first of original material since 2009’s “Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming.” “Trains,” along with its languid, colorful underwater video, is indicative of how Lov’s deliberations achieve a cinematic sweep without off-putting grandiloquence. Her voice at once grounded and heavenly, she laments not being able to view love “as a newborn sees” — “I don’t want to tire of anyone / or anyone to tire of me,” she sings with only a dollop of hope. The song is one of several collaborations on the album, made with producer Zac Rae (Death Cab For Cutie, My Brightest Diamond, Fiona Apple, among others). On “The Sharpest Knife,” she teams up with the composer Hauschka for a string-accented moment of regret (“Why do i pick the same man / over and over and over again?”), and “One in the Morning” offers one of those nightcaps where the narrator tries, often futilely, to make peace with herself. At these negotiations, Lov excels, rewarding listeners with subtle moments and uncommon intimacy throughout “Some Kind of Champion.”

||| Watch: the video for “Trains”:

||| Stream: “The Sharpest Knife” and “One in the Morning”

||| Live: Sara Lov celebrates her album release with a show Friday at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts.