Vapor City

As the name suggests, much of Vapor City, the second album from EDM whiz Travis Stewart’s Machinedrum project, is bathed in aural fog. But where 2011’s Room(s) messed with hyper, drum-machined-driven Chicago footwork, here the rhythms veer toward rolling drum and bass breaks, and the mood is a lot more relaxed. Drums underpin samples that loop and build and vary with purpose — see “Baby It’s U,” which Stewart distorts and smears into ever-more-lovelorn shapes. He makes them sound like songs, not just tracks — all the better to go with his own sung “U Still Lie,” a slushy goth/New Wave ballad for the ages.