If this is your introduction to WIFE, then chances are you’d never know that Irish producer James Kelly also fronted the forward-thinking but now defunct black metal project Altar of Plagues. Their 2013 album Teethed Glory and Injury was surely one of last year’s highlights, but now that the band has called it quits, Kelly is pressing onward albeit under a much different musical umbrella.

From his upcoming debut album, What’s Between, Kelly has highlighted “Heart Is a Far Light,” a single that acts as a serious step in a new direction and finds him trading darkness for warmth and a bed of silky electronics. And though he’s flexed his vocal and production muscles previously on the Stoic EP, this is the first time we’ve gotten to hear his unencumbered voice approaching something that sounds like melody via some hazy R&B. It’s quite the jump for a vocalist who spent the better part of the last few years brandishing his manic, wretched screaming like a war cry.

What’s Between is out June 9th via Tri Angle Records.