My Boy, the third solo record from New Zealand singer/songwriter Marlon Williams, announces an artist emerging anew. Gone is the solemn, country-indebted crooner with the velvet voice in his place comes a playful, shapeshifting creature.

Co-produced with Tom Healy and recorded at Roundhead Studios in New Zealand, My Boy finds Williams leading a new band through a set of genre-hopping tunes: from the cheery sway of “My Boy” and chugging 80s noir sheen of “Thinking Of Nina,” to the charging synth of “River Rival,” and the sultry pop jam “Dont Go Back.” All this sonic and emotional whiplash is intentional, and ultimately My Boy sees Williams having fun, even while interrogating the behaviours of himself and those around him.