Have a yen for the days when music didn't race from hook to hook like an addict in Hamsterdam, but rather rolled about a few grooves and refused to settle on one? Kinda 70s, but with something with a modern punch? Carrington MacDuffie knows that feeling, too.

Carrington MacDuffie Sugar Drip (self-released)

She rambles musically, but her songs are thick and full. She's never in a hurry, but the direction is always clear. And as for classifying her style, it's probably best described as unpretentious art pop. These are intimate, accessible songs, but they're constructed on some elaborate schemes.

And yet they tumble forth with extreme ease. MacDuffie is hardly a showy writer or performer, but these pieces still manage to exude a fulfilled ambition. And just when it feels like pretty much every musical style has skipped through, another breaks down the door. Creative wanderlust has rarely sounded so glorious.

That most of the sounds on this album aren't really in the current pop vernacular is one big reason MacDuffie is unlikely to find mass acclaim. I'm terrible at predicting that sort of thing. Nonetheless, this album that takes stock of humanity and finds hope. Thet is something we all could use more of these days.