Alan Palomo has come a long way from the trippy synth-warped space collage of 2009’s Psychic Chasms—an album that cemented the so-called “glo-fi” or “chillwave” style in the firmament of post-hipster hagiography. Lost in all the early hype (and stacked layers of curvy sound effects and signal processing) was the fact that Palomo has plenty of raw talent as a songwriter, especially when it comes to stringing together indelible melodies. He raises his game on his latest outing, which lays waste to the more experimental side of his production style in favor of slick, funky and futuristic psych-pop. It shimmers strongest on “Street Level,” a mid-tempo wave machine of rapid-panning synth envelopes that swirl vortex-like around Palomo’s disembodied tenor, while “The Glitzy Hive” is built for an ‘80s dance floor, tapping vintage Prince, Madonna and even (dare we say it) The Human League. Palomo might well be looking back in time, but sonically, his music has made a quantum leap forward.