On the cover of Portail Opaque, the new release from the Canadian artist OrangeTone, there is a digitally-rendered forest, in the middle of which floats an amorphous, computer-generated figure, a transmission from the spirit world on the other side of the broadband box, whose body—if you want to call it that—starts fluid and silvery before jutting upwards and bursting into a stack of loosely-defined cartoon limbs. Nipping at this figure’s heel is what appears to be a creature—half-dog, half-motorcycle.

The cover, designed by the artist Balfua, goes well with the swirling liquid ribbons of sound contained inside. There are genres to reference here—deconstructed club, vaporwave—that should clue in clued-in listeners as to the general parameters of the sound. But more than any genre marker, this is music that somehow reflects the trickster phantasm that is at the center of the cover’s image. Enter the portal, accept the conditions.