Mothica’s Somewhere in Between (Sharptone Records) steps away from the darker synth pop of her previous full-length, Kissing Death. Her sound has now evolved into something closer to the sonic zip code of artists leaning toward the version of modern metal that blends the genre with pop, like Poppy and Spiritbox. Heavier guitars are just being pushed more to the forefront, so it’s not a huge leap from her previous sound, and it does not feel like she is jumping on a bandwagon. The pop sound she toyed with on her last album is being refined and brought to a larger-than-life, cinematic scale. Lyrically, conceptual, but it deals with themes of inner struggle.