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First Listen: Amber Coffman, 'City Of No Reply'

Coffman's first album since leaving Dirty Projectors reads like a love letter to the act of going solo, in life as in music.
Amber Coffman's new album, <em>City Of No Reply</em>, comes out June 2.

When left , the split was acrimonious enough to inspire the band's first song since 2012. In last fall's "," singer David Longstreth issues a few mournful-but-pointed accusations — "What I want from

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