While she hasn’t exactly been unseen, St. Vincent has gone unheard since 2014, when she released the album corresponding to her stage name. Since then Annie Clark, the woman behind St. Vincent and her previous albums, has taken on other projects. Aside from touring and appearing at various concerts and other events, Clark has  directed both a horror film and an anthology on female directors. She has also begun conceptualizing a recreation of The Picture of Dorian Grey using a female lead (all of this information was first reported on Rolling Stone).

Despite all the work she submerged herself in, Clark didn’t forget about St. Vincent. She has been consistently working on a new album, MASSEDUCTION, which is set to release on Oct. 13. Two songs from the album have already been released: “Los Ageless” and “New York.” The former was more recently released, on Sept. 6, and the latter was released back on June 30.

St. Vincent has stated, as said by Paste Magazine, that each of her albums has an “archetype,” a specific type of person that the songs all revolve around. With St. Vincent, it was “near-future cult leaders.” With Strange Mercy, one of her previous albums, “housewives on pills.” But MASSEDUCTION, she says, will be autobiographical, for the most part.

“Los Ageless” weaves layers of meaning into the song’s topmost layer of heavy electrical pop sounds and catchy, flighty lyrics. Clark’s voice flows seamlessly into the other instruments, just another piece of the puzzle the song presents us with. She told the magazine Nylon, as was reported on Billboard’s website, that she wants listeners to glean their own meaning from the song based on their experiences.

“The point is for the song to mean whatever it means to somebody else,” Clark said. “I’m happy to be misunderstood.”

There are a lot of general themes within the song: fame, loss of identity, over-attachment and the like. And while these are all things that Clark has surely dealt with, the other forces at work in the song might lead a consumer to a different conclusion than Clark had intended. And she’s fine with that.

The other currently available song from the album, “New York,” is much softer and more solemn. It still carries a theme of loss within it- both loss of identity and loss of someone important. It also makes various references to New York City. It is very much a breakup song, but what is less clear is who she is breaking up with; a city, a person, past inspiration or maybe all three.

The existing parts of MASSEDUCTION give us a decadent taste of what is to come mid-October. But there are many flavors on the plate. Listeners could easily be surprised by the other eleven tracks on the album. With an artist as experimental as St. Vincent, what the future holds for fans is anyone’s guess.