On its second album, Electric Balloon (Western Vinyl), the split-personality New York band Ava Luna continues to ricochet between dissonant, hard-hitting funk inspired by the glory days of No Wave and elaborate adaptations of modern R&B, with many stops in between. "Sears Roebuck M&Ms" sounds like Thin White Duke-era Bowie shorn of any polish and luxury, "Daydream" suggest a less antisocial James Chance, and "Crown" contains traces of Dirty Projects—a band Ava Luna is often compared to—with falsetto singing closer to Jeff Buckley and David Longstreth.…
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