Kevin Bronson on July 28th, 2016

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Singer-songwriter Greta Morgan debuted her post-The Hush Sound, post-Gold Motel musical incarnation Springtime Carnivore in 2014 with a smart, buoyant, Richard-Swift-produced album on Autumn Tone Records. In the ensuing time, she worked a lot (including playing with other artists) and lived a lot — including going through a break-up that left her living by herself for the first time. “There was this bizarre feeling at night of the house being so quiet and being so totally alone,” says Morgan, adding that her new album, “‘Midnight Room’ came out of that.”

The sharply observant approach on her first album figures to give way to a more confessional tack on “Midnight Room,” which is out Oct. 7. “A lot of lyrics on the record are collaged or don’t necessarily make sense next to each other,” she says in the album announcement. “But I guess my whole headspace was like that for a few months. I felt like I couldn’t trust my memory completely — like i was space-cadeting through the weird space between sleeping and dreaming and waking and reality.”

Morgan made in the album with producer Chris Coady (Beach House, Future Islands, We Are Scientists, Smith Westerns), with La Sera’s Katy Goodman adding background vocals and Alex Greenwald (PHASES, Phantom Planet) on bass and Jason Boesel (Rilo Kiley, Bright Eyes) on percussion. The frolicsome first single “Face in the Moon” on the surface seems reason for a happy dance until you hear Morgan describe love as “a cold and distant thing / you can barely see.” It is, for her, the sound of moving on.

||| Stream: “Face in the Moon”

||| Previously: “Other Side of the Boundary,” Ears Wide Open