Kevin Bronson on May 16th, 2016

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The music of Baby Alpaca seems to float down from the heavens and alight in an equally scenic place, making a nest in the the tapestry of singer Chris Kittrell’s rich, occasionally electronically manipulated vocals. Kittrell, a native of Cincinnati who splits time between L.A. and New York and whose talents range beyond music to include film, painting and motion collage, released his debut album “Under Water” on May 6. It includes the song “In Our Eyes,” a collaboration with Theresa Wayman from Warpaint, and the single “Teenage Graceland,” a lament about feeling directionless: “We’ve been coddled / We’ve been colleged / Too much knowledge / Feeling something’s flawed,” he sings.

The striking video for “Can’t Find My Way” is the work of Kittrell and his boyfriend/collaborator Benji Staker. “He made a 4-by-4-foot landscape-type sculpture and we were inspired to turn it into a otherworldly Dali-esque environment,” Littrell says. “We developed all the layers ourselves and did all of the editing as well. It is so cool to be hands on with every stage of the film process. And having the ability to tweak and make things exactly as you see them in your head. In the video we wanted to capture the quality of a dream. A place where one is lost in stasis, wandering through unknown terrain, and being engulfed by it.”

||| Watch: The video for “Can’t Find My Way”

||| Also: Stream “In Our Eyes” and “Teenage Graceland”