As founder of the indie rock label Troubleman Unlimited and then cofounder of the indie dance imprint Italians Do It Better, Mike Simonetti has a long history of making music that’s meant to bring people together in sweaty clubs. But Indoor Life, his third solo album, trades extroversion for its inverse. Written and recorded during the first six months of 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic, the album uses ambient and minimal techno as a framing mechanism for the experience of self-isolation and its attendant feelings: boredom, humor, loneliness, even grief. It begins on a pensive note with “Easter Sunday,” in which muted synths and distant voices swirl over a slow-motion beat; “Birth” drips wistful neo-classical melodies over a skeletal drum machine before “Rebirth” dissolves into a liquid stream of dubbed-out piano. But much of Indoor Life is surprisingly resilient: “Landslide” balances melancholy synths with rugged breakbeats; the layered repetitions of “You and Me” recall The Field’s open-armed embrace of the sublime. The most telling track, though, is “Around You,” which loops a warbling vocal sample over a boom-tick beat like a racing heart, capturing the strangeness of the year in a single, potent gesture.