The Indonesia-raised, Filipino-American singer-songwriter’s music has always had an intimate quality to it. She wrote her close, folk-spun 2023 debut album Safe Ground in Reykjavík during the pandemic, a writing experience she calls very “personal” despite some input from her husband, the Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds. That first album provided a fertile test bed for ideas. Now, ideas have been fleshed out for its grander follow-up INHABIT. Read more on