Kevin Bronson on July 21st, 2015

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“Can you take / my breath away?” Kat Pawlak asks in the opening line of the new Sad Robot album, “Après Moi, le Déluge.” Ten songs and a deluge of production later, the answer is obvious: No. It’s all breathy melodrama on the band’s second album, a follow-up to 2012’s “1.0” that sees Sad Robot completing the transition from riffy blues (think Nico Vega) to cinematic pop (recent comparisons have included Goldfrapp and Sia). Produced by co-founder Nicolas Perez, mixed and mastered by George Dum and self-released last month, “Après Moi, le Déluge” is full of anguished confessionals in search of some semblance of catharsis. Sad Robot finds the latter in “Fear Me,” conveyed in the song’s bloody, Pawlak-directed video.

||| Live: Sad Robot celebrate their album release with a show Wednesday at El Cid.

||| Watch: The video for “Fear Me”

||| Stream: The whole album here:

||| Previously: “God Damn the Man,” “Hold On”