After emerging from the pandemic as one of the Twin Cities’ best-loved new bands, the harmonious folk-rock trio of singer/songwriters Barb Brynstad, Savannah Smith and the Honeydogs’ Adam Levy put all their live gigging of the past year and a half to good use on their rockier and more ambitious second album, “New Rays from an Old Sun.” There’s still a warm ’70s Los Angeles breeziness in their three-part, Fleetwood Mac-ian vocal parts, but it’s updated here with more of a psychedelic paisley-pop sheen – also very L.A.! — plus edgier and more emotionally wrecked songs, such as the searing “Hymn of the Hater” and the LP-opening searcher anthem “Stranger in a Strange Land.” Truly an album to celebrate. (STAR TRIBUNE)