Berliner Alexandra Schulze brings her own bag of editing tricks to the table. In her spare, almost improvisatory style, she examines the hidden universes of records and records, re-imagining them, testing them, and working out the problems. Her 2015 LP, “We Can't Live Without Her”, was a perfect synthesis of her various interests: pop, techno, instrumental electronic music, and experimental music.

With “Evening”, the first of a two-part EP, the former schoolteacher became more interested in the social and political context in which the record was made. The first half of “Evening” was devoted to the US presidential race. The second half was a bizarre and frustrating examination of the relationship between post-industrialism and the post-fascist left.

But even people familiar with Schulze’s work might find the album too cerebral. As the producer, she is not interested in challenging popular ideas and necessarily unfamiliar with the political environment in which she works. And she seems to have no intention of pushing the template of popular music that she’d come to know so heavily. That’s why even the most dedicated of Schulze’s fans will find themselves scratching their heads at the question of whether the EP would have been as successful if it hadn’t been so repetitive. The pacing of “Evening” is so loose that the EP can’t help but feel like a series of loose ends.