when the ever-busy Milwaukee singer-songwriter finds herself caught in the humdrum duties of daily life. There are things to do—or not—people to see—or not—and the ones and zeros of technology to attend to. And then, suddenly, she’s off and dreaming, belly laughing with a distant friend or considering taking up “the work of birds.” When she comes back down to Earth, more often than not, she finds bliss in a comforting middle ground. “There aren’t enough hours in the day, I’ve counted,” Conway sings early in the record, before slyly adding, “For loving you.”

Dreams, and the sometimes lovely, sometimes painful realities that anchor them, are subjects Conway knows a thing or two about. The past decade has found her cutting a constant but elusive figure in the Milwaukee music scene and beyond, sharing local stages with Field Report and Julia Blair, sharing national stages with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker, and releasing a steady stream of stellar solo work. Twenty-twenty-one’s Bliss Or Bust featured three tracks of wry, head-in-the-clouds indie folk. Only A Dark Cocoon, released in late 2022, untangled Joni Mitchell’s classic “The Last Time I Saw Richard” and reconfigured it into three original songs of hazy and jazz-inflected post-rock. Dusty country ballads and cheeky odes to cheese populate the discography margins.