If the world feels heavy, songstress Cindy Wilson has a cure: it’s called Second Sight. The new EP from the legendary B-52s singer is a fizzy, surf-kitsch, punk-new wave cocktail that somehow manages to sound like the past and the future all at once.

While her first two solo albums were a bit more ethereal and esoteric, this EP has a dance factor that’s turned up to 11. “It’s kind of going back and embracing that energy from when the B’s began,” Wilson says. “We wanted to do something totally different from Change or Realms.”

Wilson’s working once again with producer Suny Lyons, her longtime collaborator (and occasional cosmic co-conspirator), plus her son Nolan, who jumped in to lay down drums. “It was so incredibly special to have him play on this,” Wilson beams. “He’s such a great mus

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