Here the modern world bears a striking resemblance to the ancient world of myth. Maria Somerville has described her debut album, 2019’s All My People, as a subconscious expression of a deep longing for home. But all the while she felt the pull of Connemara, where she was born and raised, and where she finally returned in 2020. Written and recorded during her time in Connemara, Somerville’s second album and first for 4AD, Luster, feels like an evolutionary leap akin to that of Cocteau Twins between Blue Bell Knoll and Heaven or Las Vegas; the first was pretty, the second is sublime. Through a dense mist of shoegaze, post-punk, and ambient electronics, Somerville presents a dreamworld that is both mythic and real, a wild and ancient landscape in which her own figure is just barely perceptible.