Given the obvious wealth of compatibility between Mister Heavenly’s main players—Man Man’s Ryan Kattner, Islands’ Nick Thorburn, and Modest Mouse’s Joe Plummer—it’s none too surprising that the band’s first full-length release, Out Of Love, opens with the sound of a Man Man/Islands hybrid moving to Plummer’s pneumatic beats. Lest anyone criticize the feral stomp of “Bronx Sniper” as the sound of Mister Heavenly resting on its death-obsessed laurels, the album quickly transitions into the most curious entry into the ongoing retro-R&B sweepstakes, an experiment in doomed romance and skeletal pop forms outfitted with modern textures and invented slang. (Though it could easily be passed off as a doo-wop vocable, the titular refrain of “Diddy Eyes” is apparently a reference to the distinctive ocular features of Sean “P. Diddy” Combs.)