Duncan Sheik mines his ’80s adolescence for this album, reinterpreting the gleaming British pop that soundtracked college rock radio and John Hughes movies. Opener “Stripped” sets out his MO, recasting Depeche Mode’s slick, stadium-strafing synth-pop as an acoustic guitar-and-banjo rumination. Sheik’s intimate vocals and stark arrangements bring out the strong bones and beating hearts of these songs, transforming Tears for Fears’ dramatic “Shout” into a plaintive ballad and deepening the yearning behind The Blue Nile’s ethereal “Stay.”