Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. This week, we revisit a 2016 album from France that reinvented the decade’s electro-pop as an idyllic Mediterranean dream.

The songs may be familiar to diehards, but on a long-awaited collection of early Alex Chilton recordings they appear in their most primordial form, just sprouting legs and walking on land.

Like fellow Rhythmic Music Conservatory alum ML Buch, the Danish musician recontextualizes hoary sounds in surprising ways, flipping ’80s AOR and jazz fusion into sleek, mysterious art rock.

On her fourth record of tender, twangy indie rock, Ella Williams probes the capacity of the open road to cure anything that ails the heart.