Yumi Zouma are breaking up with dream pop. After a decade collectively, the Current Zealand four-portion have honed an airy, lush, evenly melancholic sound – but now they need replace. “Extra low the entirety, more boldness,” guitarist Charlie Ryder has acknowledged of fifth document No Indulge in Lost to Kindness, written true by the band’s “most friction-filled creative duration” to this point. Whereas it’s correct that their most recent singles are sooner, louder and more distorted, these shining, honest tracks will rattle only their longest-serving fans.

Bashville on the Sugar locks eyes with an ex on the subway and rushes with Olivia Campion’s breathless drumming, whereas Blister flips the band’s knack for whistleable melodies into pogoing, enjoyably predictable pop punk that professes “venom and rage” but is powerful more relaxing than indignant. Budge begins as an staunch swap-up, with threatening bass and an uncharacteristically deadpan performance from singer Christie Simpson as she picks apart an ADHD diagnosis, but soon blossoms into billowy, even dreamy, layered vocals and colorful guitar.

This voyage of self-discovery is more energetic on the smooth, disoriented 95 – a tune about ambition and homesickness with mute atmospherics and a shockingly folky touch – and nearer Ready for the Cards to Descend, which mourns a relationship speed dry but no longer yet over. Without the frequent reverb, Simpson’s vocals are hanging: “I’m leaving you or no longer it is miles no longer linked what, turning myself into grime,” she vows, gothic and ghostly. Removed from a dramatic reinvention, that is Yumi Zouma remaking themselves in staunch time. Change is ceaselessly slower than we’d like it to be.