Deena Abdelwahed’s second album is an epic exploration of the latest currents in club music, blending mahraganat, shaabi, and dabke rhythms with footwork, bass, techno, and Bahraini khaliji. But trying to define this record and the various styles it brings together is perhaps besides the point, as Abdelwahed purposefully set out to make music that completely disregards boundaries, both geographical and stylistic: it’s neither “Western” nor “Arabic,” “experimental” nor strictly “clubbing” music. It’s simply a reflection of Abdelwahed’s experience in the Tunisian underground scene, and of her years as a producer and touring DJ at the forefront of the experimental and club music scene. Like her previous record, 2018’s Khonnar, a gloomy atmosphere runs through Jbar Rsas, but the distorted vocals, grandiose synths, and deconstructed rhythms give it a hallucinatory, dreamlike quality, whether on the murky, slower “Naive” or the frenetic, richly layered “Violence for Free.” Less prominent than on previous records, her voice here adds another rhythmic layer, and is as striking as ever.