“I think a lot of people miss all the details,” Hiatus Kaiyote’s Nai Palm tells Apple Music. “But it’s like when you watch a movie you love and then you watch it again after a while, you always notice something new.” The songwriter’s comparison is on point: The Melbourne group—who you could describe as future-soul/jazz/R&B, or, in their own words, “multidimensional, polyrhythmic gangster shit”—make intricate, expressive music, as enveloping as it is complex. The band’s first two albums weren’t just nominated for Grammys, they were fawned over by icons like Prince, Questlove, and Erykah Badu, while Drake, Beyoncé, JAY-Z, Kendrick Lamar, and Anderson .Paak are just some of those who’ve sampled their songs. “Each song is its own little universe,” Nai Palm says. The instrumental composition of each track often feels impossibly detailed, but that’s not to say it’s intimidating. They’re warm, inviting, and alive, while Nai Palm’s poetic, often metaphorical lyrics, which tend to connect personal experiences to the natural world, are brought to life through her singular vocals. The band approaches even the simplest concepts with an intent to create something new and entirely unique. The Grammy-nominated track “Breathing Underwater,” for example, reimagines the classic love song. “The only representation [love] gets in a lot of songwriting is romantic love,” Nai Palm says. “I wanted to write about the different forms of love that can exist. There’s a lyric, ‘I could call your demons inside, soak them in chamomile.’ That's about the form of love where if you have a homie who’s upset or anxious or whatever, your love can be in the simple gesture of making them a cup of tea. It’s not a valiant proclamation of love for someone, but it is a form of love. And these little gestures are important.” There’s an innate spirituality throughout Hiatus Kaiyote’s albums, as well as tenderness, empathy, and hope. “Even if I’m covering thematics that are quite personal and raw and potentially traumatic, it’s always my intention to have a component of hope, or of the wisdom gained from your trauma,” she says. “‘By Fire’ is a burial song for my father. He died when I was young, a few years after my mother,” Nai Palm says. “I still get choked up when I play this live.” And “Get Sun,” featuring Brazilian musician Arthur Verocai—the first single from their third album—finds light in the darkest places. “A way to get sun when your heart’s not open… No rebel yell, comfort in vacant waters/And I awake, purging of fear/A task that you wear/Dormant valiance it falls.”