Though this Seattle-based group is often lumped in with shoegazer bands such as Ride or likened to the heavy artillery fire of My Bloody Valentine and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (with whom they’ve toured), Voyager One are much more active and melodic than the shoegazer consortium and never as abrasive as those from the more aggressive end of the spectrum. “Ocean Grey” and “The Kids Take Control” boast extra layers of feedback and manipulated vocals, but there’s more than freaky effects to their fifth studio album. The group — essentially now a mainstay duo with additional guest musicians, including a trans-continental collaboration with the German-Japanese experimental group Guitar — best express themselves with the perfectly balanced quiet-goth tones of “Here” and “The Future Is Obsolete” where judicious application of ambient hums and strikingly icy guitar tones melt into the unaffected and welcomingly sincere vocals. Though their name implies a space-aged ambition, Voyager One never allow the technology to overwhelm them or replace the age-old tenets of strong singing and songwriting necessary for any band to succeed.