With local pop-rockers Cordalene, it's best to expect, if not the unexpected, then certainly the continually evolving. (Remember when they were an alt-country outfit with a different lead singer?) It's been little over a year since the most recent upheavals—the dismissal of founding bassist Jim McGuinn and the pilfering of much of the band's gear (making them a most unfortunate group of Philly trendsetters). Their new album The Star Ledger (Dalloway)—the first full-length since pop-smart singer/songwriter Mike Kiley joined—shifts the band's focus ever so slightly. The emphasis here is less on the speedy, guitar-baited hooks of the band's Red and Blue EPs. Instead, the band has crafted a surprisingly sprawling kind of power-pop, with plenty of swelling tempos and surges in volume, and Kiley's quavering tenor holding it all together. The opener, "All Fear Disappears," shimmers more than slams; "If You Didn't Love Me" and "What's Your Comfort?" are truly epic. Appropriately, there may be a storyline uniting the songs on The Star Ledger. Even more appropriately, at their release show on Saturday, the band's performance will be abetted by Mark O'Maley's lighting design and a troupe of dancers.