Kevin Bronson on September 21st, 2016

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Singer-guitarist Cecilia Enriquez’s parents must have known something, naming their daughter after the patron saint of musicians. And it is that moniker, Saint Cecilia, that Enriquez has chosen for her new musical persona. Enriquez, who made noise four years ago fronting the razor-edged guitar-pop outfit C-horse and has been active in the indie-rock band Light As a Feather, returns Oct. 4 with a debut album titled “Entrance.” As in grand. The album’s lush indie-rock-cum-dream-pop comes drenched in keyboards and three- and four-part harmonies, guitars alternately crunching and twinkling. The album was recorded at the upstate New York studio of drummer Joey Welcher (ex-The Mormons), with Leah Provencher on bass. The heavenly grunge-pop of “Everyone You Know” sounds plucked from the ’90s; the grandiosity is intoxicating in the twining vocals and ethereal backdrop of “When Something Breaks.” Enriquez’s sensibilities were good to the last crunch as C-horse; Saint Cecilia, though, is another level. “In the past, I got to draw the picture,” she says. “Now, I get to color it in as well.”

||| Stream: “Everyone You Know” and “When Something Breaks”