“Lael Neale’s music resides on the blurry fringes of indie pop, and that’s right where she likes it. Sure, she looks back fondly on her time spent immersed in LA’s artistic community—she told Aquarium Drunkard that, since returning to her native Virginia, she misses “being in a community of people doing the same things as me”—but her individualistic way of working and propensity for lo-fi experimen”