It's not easy to make music that is as intimate as it is unknowable. Yet the Brooklyn musician Nora Stanley, a frequent collaborator, improviser and arranger whose back catalogue is impressively varied and adventurous, manages to strike that delicate balance on 'Red', the latest single from her upcoming record Glass (out 31 July via Worm).

Glass will be her debut album proper, but her output in other forms can be traced back several years: as a woodwind player and keyboardist, Stanley's work has appeared on releases by artists like Cassandra Jenkins, The New Pornographers and Beth Orton, and although 'Red' doesn't sound exactly like any of those, it swims in similar waters, lapping up agains the outer shores of indie and folk while retaining a certain experimental fluidity. Like Jenkins in particular, she is a remarkably precise writer and player, and perhaps that's where the aforementioned balance of intimacy and distance comes from: everything here is included for a very specific purpose, each detail carefully thought-through and each thought distilled to its purest essence. Perhaps in the context of Glass as a whole, 'Red' will reveal more of itself; for now, it's as enigmatic as it is beautiful.