For Cassandra Jenkins, the thematic exploration she works through across her albums doesn’t end after they conclude. Over the past few years, the New York City-raised songwriter has offered amended and extended expansions of her records, bringing the original concepts into exciting new territories. Her thrilling sophomore breakthrough, 2021’s An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, was accompanied later that year by (An Overview On) An Overview on Phenomenal Nature. That collection featured demos, outtakes and new experiments—a left turn where the original album went right. In 2024, she released My Light, My Destroyer and unveiled its accompanying project, My Light, My Massage Parlor, in 2025. The eight-song collection begins with “Still Rambling”, which captures Jenkins’ songwriting process in medias res, building a story through found sounds, field recordings and a few moments of contemplative narration over a warm piano melody. Though most of these songs are sketches built around piano, they offer valuable insight into Jenkins’ approach to My Light, My Destroyer, like on “Haley”, which reimagines the rich string suite of that original album’s “Hayley” as something sparer, more contemplative and, above all, new.