Katie Dey’s music almost invariably lends itself to talk of How We Live On the Internet: it’s glitchy and distorted, overloaded with electronic information, and her last album title looked like a pocket text. The Melbourne artist creates immersive, swirling, multihued psychedelia that is not kaleidoscopic so much as it contains the tragic, mesmerizing beauty of a spiderwebbed iPhone cover. But regardless of the technology, all of these discussions deal in emotional disconnection, spiritual quandaries, and, of course, pop music itself.

Even if Dey's beguiling album Flood Network is intentionally hard to strip for individual parts, it is pop music. The disorienting presentation of highlight “Only to Trip and Fall Down Again” just ensures that it'll speak to those who prefer that their pop affirmation isn’t entirely purified; the EQ'ing gives her melodies a pleasing, unusual tartness that plays off the song’s plainspoken lyrics. Like so many other internet pursuits that appear blinkered and distracted on the surface—Reddit, Pokemon Go, you name it—“Only to Trip and Fall Down Again” is just seemingly insular people trying to find new ways to connect.