[BIG-SKY SONGS] Stellarondo came all the way from Missoula to record this year's self-titled full-length with Adam Selzer, but the record still sounds—thanks to country strumming, Western horns, sharp strings and one very mournful pedal steel—like Montana. Caroline Keys' vocals remind of Breeders frontwoman Kim Deal, were she played by Shelley Duvall in a biopic. Keys' songwriting slips between pretty, descriptive narratives ("What I Know") and more impressionistic pieces ("The March Brute," which finds Keys singing: "Backstage at a funeral/ All I can do is hiss/ My teeth don't fit together anymore/ Behind these lips"). All of it sounds lush and well-plotted, if a bit quirky—an adjective that fits Montana and Portland as well as it does Stellarondo.