Singer/songwriter Lia Ices last record was 2011’s criminally underrated Grown Unknown. Since then she’s kept an almost impressively low profile, which seemed pretty normal for the artist who once reveled in her own general anonymity. But now she’s releasing a follow up, Ices, and with it comes first single “Thousand Eyes.”

At first, it’s all a little shocking: Ices’ first two records were strewn with complex, mostly acoustic, slightly avant-garde chamber folk-pop (throw another signifier in there, Jeremy, really). So when “Thousand Eyes” crashes out of the speakers with electronic-based beats and pretty, high synths, I was caught off guard. But acoustic strums quickly become a backbone for all the feathery electronic textures, providing a beautiful backdrop for Ices’ fantastic singing. It’s all almost beatific, which makes sense: Ices has stated this album is all about the notions of flight and levity, and the song beams with a positive energy. “And we know that we go on / ‘Cause we go on, go on, go on” she sings, and that seems as good an explanation as any in her hands.

Ices is out September 16 via Jagjaguwar.