Within June McDoom’s kaleidoscopic songs are traces of her life story: The South Florida native was raised on Jamaican music, later found a love for folk and 1960s songwriters, and eventually moved to New York to study jazz performance. Since her 2022 debut single “The City,” the singer-songwriter has synthesized these influences into a singular style of dreamy avant-garde folk that draws from Judee Sill, Nina Simone, and rocksteady pioneer Alton Ellis. McDoom’s debut full-length Follow the Light makes the best case yet that these seemingly disparate inspirations are, in fact, natural bedfellows. On tracks like “Human Angel” and “Dream Dub,” the puzzle pieces fall in place—lilting folk guitar, the loping rhythms of dub reggae, and the ethereal echoes of McDoom’s multitracked vocals. “Grandpa,” a stunning exchange between McDoom and her grandfather, gestures to Jamaica’s music history: mento, a style of Jamaican folk music that predated reggae. “Help me find what I’m looking for,” sings McDoom in her airy falsetto, to which her grandfather, a mento musician with a strikingly deep voice, answers: “I’ll be here.”