With a distinctive voice and undeniable hooks, North Carolina songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Kiel combines a strong pop sensibility with a track record of creative reinvention. Each successive album finds Kiel exploring new genres and instruments -- but although her methods shift, her songs remain unmistakably her own, full of wit and generous vulnerability. After releasing her catchy and emotionally direct debut album (Table Manners, 2008), Kiel dove into banjo-driven alt-country (Television Waltz, 2012) and then jangly underground pop (Shot from a Cannon, 2017). Dream Logic (2020), Kiel’s fourth album, finds her at a new creative peak as a songwriter and artist. With Jeff Crawford (The Dead Tongues, Mandolin Orange) engineering and co-producing, the record features an all-star cast of musicians, including Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Chris Stamey (The dB's), Robert Sledge (Ben Folds Five), Laura King (Bat Fangs), Carter Gaj (The Love Language), Charles Cleaver (Big Star’s Third Live), Daniel Faust (H.C. McEntire) and more. The record's stylistic reach spans from synth, art, and dream pop to droning guitar psychedelia, to punchy garage rock. Layers of strings, keyboards, percussion, brass, guitar and vocals create lush textures; lyrical material drawn from dreams of all kinds gives the album a surreal and immediate quality. Dream Logic pulls off something both bold and delicate: Kiel invites the listener into her dreams, and more fully into their own.