Blood is the wonderfully eclectic debut studio album from singer and avant-garde cellist Kelsey Lu. Boundless in its scope, Blood distills the range of Lu’s impressive resumé, which includes collaborations with the likes of Solange, Blood Orange and Oneothrix Point Never, into a crystalline collection of tracks threaded together by her goosebump-inducing vocals and expressive cello playing. Sauntering through sumptuous dream pop, symphonic disco and spacious, meditative R&B, her debut offering eludes genre and answers with a stylistic confidence seemingly beyond her own experience. Lu moves through this lush, vibrant musical universe in restless pursuit of her own vision, aesthetic and spirituality. Listening to Blood is to watch an arresting portrait of a young artist coming into her own, always pushing forward in her enigmatic, exploratory wanderings towards the promise of, one day, reaching some higher plain.