Chicago can be a competitive music scene, and clearly Bailiff aren’t interested in doing what’s been done. For the band's second album, Remise, the group raised the money from a successful Kickstarter campaign and settled into a recording studio for two weeks with engineer Beau Sorenson (who’d previously worked magic for Death Cab for Cutie and Bob Mould). The music that came out of the sessions is hard to explain. There’s a tribal sound to the guitar work of multi-instrumentalist Owen O’Malley that frees up Josh Siegel to take the songs into unprecedented territory; it's surprisingly accessible when considering its complexity. “Helicopter” and “Build It Again” come across as catchy epics, while “Love Like Mine” slows down for a reflective midtempo track that’s expanded upon by the trio’s clearly superior musicianship. “Out of the Blue,” “Head in the Clouds,” and “You and I” take things even slower and more heartworn. The sludgier ends of the band's attack have been cleaned up, but their advanced ideas on how to approach what they consider pop music is what keeps everyone guessing.