The duo’s second album is wistful, anxious and ultimately hopeful. Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan met in 2024 while attending Bard College, immediately bonding over their shared love of IDM, British post-punk and the late Sparklehorse. They released “Nerves”, their first single as ear, that same year—a hushed ambient ballad that erupts halfway through into an almost-banger, recorded on Avtan’s phone in the school library. Bridging the gap between twee pop and digital hardcore, their debut album, 2025’s self-released The Most Dear and the Future, balanced quiet intimacy, heavy bass and unexpected found-sound samples. That album’s follow-up, Rumspringa, arrives via their new label A24 Music, with a title that refers to the Amish rite of passage when teenagers are allowed to diverge from their customs before deciding whether to commit to the Amish way of life. On songs like “Coil” and “Ne Plus Ultra”, the duo’s sighing vocals and lilting synth melodies are countered by skittering breakbeats and squelching square-wave bass. Elliptical imagery flickers past, as if seen sleepily through a car window: highway lines, frozen fields, a liquor store near closing time. The mood is wistful, sort of anxious, ultimately hopeful—a strange happiness that is so close to sadness it’s hard to separate. “It no longer exists/The place you thought you left,” Avtan sings on “Amsterdam”. And yet, on the dreamy “Water and Power”, the duo declare: “Somehow time is frozen/And open and alive.”