British Columbia bass queen Caroline Cecil—aka WHIPPED CREAM—is a rarity in the world of EDM: a big-tent DJ and producer who also deals in the sort of open-diary songcraft that you can imagine translating just as effectively to an acoustic open-mic night. Following her decade-long ascent from bedroom beatmaker to festival mainstay, HOME WAS ALWAYS ME is Cecil’s first full-length statement, and the journey it charts is as emotional as it is physical—it’s not often you hear a line like “I would fake my death just to see if you would come and visit me” in the middle of an upbeat dance-pop track (see: the post-BRAT bop “want me again”). And whether she’s infusing the tech-house throb of “midnight moon” with some xx-style romanticism or inventing emo drum ’n’ bass on “a different self, not this time,” HOME WAS ALWAYS ME feels like the perfect 3 am album, whether you’re spending that time out of your head on the dance floor or curled up at home alone deep inside your thoughts.