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Eleanor Underhill's new record is called "Land of the Living," and listening straight through can be a little dizzying. Her songs skip from '90s alt-rock ("Strange Chemistry") and synth pop ("Run with the Wolves") to banjo-inflected techno ("Middle of Life"), straight-up R&B ("Easier Than This") and the rootsy Americana at the foundation of Underhill's musical history. And then there's the intimate storytelling, some of it from a third-person distance, some from first-person vulnerability.