Artist and seasoned musician Sarah Everton is back doing what she loves in Richmond, with her band’s debut album to prove it. Local rock concern, Added Dimensions, originated as the solo recording project of Everton, who has returned to her native stomping grounds after many a young adult adventure with former bands Bleeding Rainbow, Blowdryer, Rabbit U.S. and Telepathic, that took her all over the map.

Upon resettling in the river city, Everton wasn’t sure if she wanted to put together a band to perform the music she’d been writing and recording at home with her longtime partner, both romantic and musical, Rob Garcia. “At first, I wasn’t even sure I wanted to play shows as Added Dimensions,” Everton says. “But now that I have been, I’m having a lot of fun. Even though … it’s very nerve wracking.”

She has enlisted Garcia on drums and Charlottesville-based writer and musician Erin O’Hare — who you may recognize from local psych-pop band, Outer World. Less than a year after taking the stage and floors around town, Added Dimensions is keeping busy. “I wasn’t aware of all the venues,” Everton says. “I just remember being bummed that Strange Matter was gone.”

After self-releasing a split cassette with Almond to benefit the Transgender Law Center,  Added Dimensions’ debut album “Jane From Preoccupied America” came out earlier this month on lauded indie label, Domestic Departure, out of Portland, Oregon. A play on the Swell Maps’ classic art-punk opus, “Jane From Occupied Europe,” the title is an apt nod to Added Dimensions’ DIY record-making ethos and techniques, as well an as eerily fitting assessment of the times, perpetually at the brink of World War III as we seem to be.

In addition to being part of the uptick of original music happening around the city, Everton is a graphic artist — shoutout VCU School of the Arts — responsible for some of the most fetching screen printed concert posters around, as well as her T-shirt brand Ditto Sicko which you can find at Circle Thrift, Plan 9 and Vinyl Conflict.

The album release party on the books for this weekend at Gallery5 features a lineup that wonderfully encapsulates Richmond’s rejuvenated punk and pop-adjacent music scene of late. So we asked Everton to walk us through her new album, one track at a time, to mark the occasion, and add, uh, dimensions, to your listening experience.

“Preoccupied”

This is the song to make me think of the title for the album. It felt like an opener right away, so when I came up with the record name, it really felt right. The demo was really short, so I wanted to extend it with something at the very beginning. I was a little inspired by the album’s namesake, “Jane from Occupied Europe,” and considered making it longer and way weirder. Before we tried layering anything else on top of the organ-drums-guitar, I knew we didn’t need to, because less is more.

“Pay Away”

The first of three songs that start with this guitar part! Straightforwardly written about how work sucks. It’s about losing perspective when you’re kept distracted by stress, just trying to get through each day. You might realize that you wasted a chunk of your life looking back when you retire — but also, we don’t really get a choice here in this country and a lot of people can no longer retire. Anyway, I love the harmonies in this, and it feels like it could be played on a loop forever.

“What’s Gonna Happen”

I’m really proud of the main riff in this one. [It’s] 100% about overwhelm from the news cycle. How unhealthy it is to expose yourself to it all too much; but then there’s the slippery slope of missing out on current events and being uninformed. It’s really an addiction to read the news 24-7, but the flipside is totally avoiding it, which can be very problematic.

“Midtempo Mind”

This one is totally about my fascination, jealousy and ultimately, my relief, to not be neurotypical. Try to imagine: What is it like to not be extreme about everything? To not have depression and to ruminate? Genuinely interested! I am also a little bitter about how the world is made for the even-keeled individual.

“Self Improve”

This is the first song I wrote that I knew was album material. More content about trying to make yourself fit in so that you can succeed and how futile that is. The demo is basically exactly like the album version.

“Take It”

This is my favorite song on the album. I love the band The Urinals and was playing around with the chords to “Scholastic Aptitude” and came up with this. The lyrics are about how you may as well do what you want, because the world is ending way sooner than it should.

“Flashing On and Off”

I had the riff for this one on my voice memo app for a long time. I think it was labeled ‘punky shit’? I only had the one riff that kind of loops back into itself. I knew I wanted a guitar lead line in the middle, and when we recorded it, I noodled around until finding the one. The lyrics are just a silly, repetitive way of describing being emotionally dysregulated.

“Out of Body/Out of Mind”

I had an organ on the demo for this, but when I heard it without it, I loved how much it made me think of Wire. The main riff came about from writing another song, when I was trying to come up with a way to end that one. I was like, ‘Well damn, this should be its own entire thing.’ More lyrics about overwhelm and particularly about being really impatient.

“See Through”

This is one of my favorites. The verses are sort of like the corrupt, impotent Democratic Party, and the chorus is like the extra-fascist current Republican Party. I hate them both so much. Rob says [the song] reminds him of Nirvana, which is a huge compliment.

“Slow Shifting”

It took a while to wrangle this song into its final form. I thought it was more of a singing one at first, not a talk-singing one. It didn’t feel right, so I stripped the amount of lyrics down and did a more spoken-style vocal. The lyrics are about how when you make more and more concessions for the sake of decorum in politics, you really just help push everything over to the far right. It’s all slowly being pushed that way because people are so concerned with being the bigger person, when in reality, they are also corrupt and scared to upset their donors … especially AIPAC, who they greatly benefit from financially. Also, I love Rob’s B-52s drum beat!

“Domesticated”

Another one about wasting your life trying to fit into societal expectations. Feeling bad for mindlessly watching TV and doing nothing, but you feel like you earned it from working your shitty job all day. Then that slowly slips into apathy and ignoring what’s happening in the world, and you’re addicted to feeling protected in your bubble. The cycle continues because you’re exhausted so you tell yourself it’s fine.

“Productive Life”

This was the last song I wrote for the album, so it worked out weirdly perfect. Especially because it also has an organ drone like the opening song, and that’s truly a coincidence. This one is about my resentment at my own guilt for having a non-traditional job now — or even when I worked retail and service industry jobs that felt less valid. Just the boring amount of importance people put on jobs — unless it’s one you love — and the status it gives you. Plus it’s about my disdain for small talk. It is also a homage to one of my favorite songs, “Fantastic Life,” by The Fall.

Added Dimensions play Saturday, Oct. 11 at Gallery5 with Outer World, Hard Copy and Kitchenette. Doors are at 7 p.m. and cost $12.