Amber Coffman probably didn’t want her debut solo album to be picked over for titbits of scurrilous gossip, but that seems unavoidable now. Her split in 2012 from longtime boyfriend – and one-time Dirty Projectors bandmate – Dave Longstreth finally became fractious after this year’s self-titled Dirty Projectors album, which saw him unleash some fairly vicious barbs. It left people on tenterhooks as to what Coffman’s musical response might be, but – the odd pointed lyric aside – that response is a sunny, R&B-influenced album abundant with fluttering melodies, and concerned less with settling scores than learning to exist alone (“There’s a voice inside of me, and it’s time to listen,” is how All to Myself kicks things off). To add Fleetwood Mac-esque drama, City of No Reply was actually produced by Longstreth during a period of truce, and the influence of Coffman’s former band is detectable, adding offbeat appeal to balance out her more accessible tendencies. The result is intriguing – an album about going it alone, that hasn’t entirely shaken its past.