On their second album for Mute, Desire Marea’s voice hits both falsetto beauty and deeper resonant yearn out of the gate on the rising and falling sweep of “Ezulwini,” a sign of the blend of sonic richness conjured up throughout. Like a number of compelling artists worldwide in the 2020s, there’s a real sense of Marea fully presenting fluid identity, electronic roots and multilingual flow throughout On The Romance of Being, as haunting chorale vocals, dance pulses, epic rock moves, spotlit piano balladry and more recombine into fascinating forms.