Chaz Bear ditched the guitars and dove headfirst into the dancefloor for Outer Peace, his most unabashedly club-ready statement yet. Recorded in his Oakland home studio, the album channels French house euphoria and late-2010s electronic pop through his signature hazy filter, with collaborations from Abra and Wet adding texture to tracks like Monte Carlo and Ordinary Pleasure.

The result feels like finding serenity in the strobe lights, Bear's oblique observations on modern life floating atop funk-inflected grooves that shimmer without losing their bedroom-pop soul.