After capturing the SoundCloud audience with her debut EP, 2015's Urban Flora, Alina Baraz is sinking her perfectly manicured nails even deeper into her atmospheric, genre-defying sound with this year's The Color of You EP. The surprise release finds the 24-year-old singer opening up about her romantic life with unprecedented candor, using the songs as a mirror to reflect on the mistakes she's made throughout her relationship journey. Highlights include the bouncy "I Don't Even Know Why Though," the tender electronic ballad "Yours," and her two melancholic tunes with frequent collaborator Khalid -- "Electric" and "Floating."

Ahead of her headlining North American tour (which kicks off on Sept. 6 in Houston with special guests Cautious Clay, JMSN, and Lolo Zouaï), Alina Baraz spoke to Billboard about getting over heartbreak, discovering her aura, and what's to come on her next album.

Alina Baraz has emerged from the shadows to deliver a surprise project today, a nine-track effort titled The Color Of You, accompanied by a video for the tape's lead single "I Don't Even Know Why Though." Baraz has steadily worked up towards a solo release, dropping the dazzling Urban Flora EP with Galimatias in 2015, and making waves in 2017 with "Electric" featuring Khalid. We're sure to get some of that lush, warm and smokey R&B that Baraz has capped as her signature sound.