Art says what words can't, and trying to explain it can get in the way. Of all the ideas in Eric Berglund's work since his duo the Tough Alliance emerged from Sweden several years ago, those two have been constants. On the title track from TTA's cult-beloved A New Chance, he deployed a fitting line of movie dialogue: "It's not a question of understanding. If you feel it, you feel it, stupid." The label he runs, Sincerely Yours, is deeply anti-"social." 　　And yet what web presence Berglund does have is meticulously curated, and straight-faced grandiosity is a hallmark of public statements from Gothenburg's "ultra messiah aka mr yeah aka life aka you." His debut album under solo alias ceo, 2010's White Magic, suggested he'd made peace with the contradictions between creativity and publicity, self-expression and selling yourself; its sumptuous, post-Internet miniatures often touched on themes of illumination and transcendence. Lead single "Come With Me"—lush and brash enough for an alternate Top 40, as weird and hermetic as the cult indie-dance record it really was—beckoned listeners "to a place I call reality." 　　Three-and-a-half years later, that place has gotten a little more real. The sophomore album from CEO (yes, all caps now) comes after label signees Air France called it quits and another hometown kindred spirit, Jens Lekman, pared his once-maximalist style down to the nub. Berglund, too, has shed some innocence—he recently told The Fader, "I admit—I was an enlightenment noob"—but if Wonderland stops short of promising epiphanies, it's still as luxuriantly widescreen and eccentrically detail-rich as ever. At home with the inevitability of loss, it's an album where you can lose yourself.