Cuteness can be therapeutic. That’s the message that Olive Ardizoni wants to get across in their music as Green-House. “Cuteness and joy are gateways to compassion,” says the Los Angeles musician, who is nonbinary. “Find Home,” an emotional standout from their album Music for Living Spaces, upcoming from Los Angeles’ Leaving Records, confirms that “cuteness” needn’t be synonymous with frivolity.

In recent years, Leaving has become an outpost for the new-age revival, wholeheartedly embracing music’s potential as a conduit for wellness and spiritual betterment, and Green-House’s practice is perfectly in tune with this philosophy. Before moving to Los Angeles from Asheville, North Carolina, Ardizoni sang in punk and metal bands, but they were also in the habit of talking to plants, which eventually led them to make music for them. (Hence, perhaps, the artist’s photosynthesis-friendly alias.) It’s easy to see how plants and people alike might draw sustenance from “Find Home”: Suffused in glistening Rhodes keyboard, muted chimes, and trembling glissandi, it radiates a soft-focus rainbow glow. Singing in a high, clear falsetto, Ardizoni sketches out a grounding journey: “I follow the wind/And I fly home/I follow the trees/And I find home.” There’s a twist in this voyage, however, as self-knowledge gives way to empathy: “I find that I’m you/And I’m home.” It’s a weighty idea illuminated by childlike wonder.

An earlier version of this review incorrectly named Green-House’s former place of residence; they first began performing in North Carolina.