20 Summer Albums We Need to Hear ASAP

“Lesbians, in general, live in the yearn,” Jill Gutowitz writes in her book Girls Can Kiss Now, continuing later on that “it’s not about the destination. It’s about the spark, the yearn and the roadblocks that exacerbate the yearn.” On her second album, Amber Bain puts this ethos into effect; only yearning, for her, isn’t a stasis but an ever-spinning circle. Whether it’s self-realization, the beginning of romantic love or its end, In The End It Always Does cycles through the stretch between desire and reality, like on “Boyhood” when she sings “I used to be somebody else and I’m still out looking for me,” her voice a slow-moving shimmer of memory. Bain continues her creative partnership with producer George Daniel of The 1975, giving these songs a humid funk and a deep-rooted sense of melody, the kind that sinks into your mind and repeats on loop.

Out June 30.