THAO’s first album in six years is all about feeling: “Don’t just handshake the body who loves you,” she murmurs on opening track “Fossils,” a plea to an elusive lover that evolves from practiced cool to joy with the help of a serpentine bassline. As a title, Show Me isn’t a command to the listener as much as it is one to herself. THAO produced the album alongside Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, ditching her former identity as the “band” Thao & The Get Down Stay Down as another way to ground herself as an artist. This time around, THAO’s sideways approach to song structure and mille-feuille sonic layering is accompanied by lyrics that take on her last six years, which were marked by divorce and its resulting personal breakthroughs. “Enemy” describes late-night longing in detail, shifting between sing-song come-ons and claustrophobic paranoia. Neko Case joins THAO on “Catch as Catch Can,” the two singers slowly upping the temperature as they dare each other to make their “bodies wholly holy and rapturous.” The outside world intrudes on “Sick of the Times,” where THAO, Tune-Yards, and The Linda Lindas throw a defiant dance party to counter any creeping feelings of despair and remind the audience—and themselves—that coming together is a powerful act.