Formed by guitarist/singer Homero Salazar Andrujovich and keyboardist/singer Maria Sage in 2011, the dream-pop outfit hit a series of stumbling blocks while recording its debut album, Glaziao.

“It’s hard to find the right and committed people to form a band,” Andrujovich says. Amid multiple lineup changes, sessions for Glaziao stretched across two years. He and Sage finished the album in 2015, but without a stable group of players, they felt unsure about next steps.

“It seems pointless to release an album and not [be] able to tour [on] it,” says Andrujovich. “We went into a hiatus trying to determine what to do.”

After finally solidifying into a quintet — with drummer Ryan Witt, guitarist Hays Dowdy and bassist Andrew Bezila — Go Cozy released its album and hit the road. Then their tour van was burglarized in Chicago.

“Luckily no gear was stolen, but it was the night before 4/20 and we had great plans to camp and chill hard,” says singer/guitarist Homero Salazar Andrujovich. “All of our cannabis and clothes were taken away.”

The band recovered their losses through generous donations from fans and its label, D.C.’s Babe City Records — and Andrujovich, 28, hasn’t let the experience bum him out. “It was a huge blessing to be on the road meeting so many cool people around the country,” he says.

Go Cozy’s record shares Andrujovich’s laid-back attitude in the face of difficulty. Named after a word that refers to perfect surf conditions in Andrujovich’s childhood home of Puerto Rico, Glaziao is as mellow as a day at the beach. But tension lurks underneath. Andrujovich and Sage’s lyrics dwell on relationship mishaps and persistent feelings of nostalgia, while the shimmering accompaniment drifts unexpectedly across oblong song structures.

The band started out simpler. “We discovered that some of our favorite contemporary albums have been produced on GarageBand in the artist’s bedroom,” says Andrujovich. “I started experimenting, and we came up with songs.” He and Sage began making the record with producer Tommy Sherrod in 2013.

These days, Andrujovich is optimistic about the band’s future — and cautiously eager to get back on the road, having learned a key tour lesson the hard way.

“Never park two blocks away from the venue,” he says.

Go Cozy plays May 8 at Songbyrd Music House.

“My parents are super conservative Christians,” says the songwriter from Rockville, Maryland. “That was kind of my experience and my upbringing — and I was a part of that for a really long time.”

Smith would go on to form a Christian-leaning band called Kindlewood. But her feelings toward religion began to change while studying at the Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas. She felt herself drifting away from her religious community.

That’s the message within “This Fabric,” a song Smith recorded with her new band, Citrine.

The tune is “a declaration of needing to cut ties from a lot of my past and a lot of things that I was afraid about writing about,” says Smith.

“I won’t play that game/Always second-guessing forward motion,” she sings on the dreamy pop track, her vocals complemented by bright electronics and tropical notes. “This fabric is suffocating.”

In contrast to Kindlewood — a group entrenched in the then-trendy folk scene — Citrine sounds like a cousin of ethereal rockers the Cocteau Twins. But Smith says the band takes care to draw from a variety of sources, from Lauryn Hill to Santana.

“I really tried to dig back into what I listened to in high school,” says Smith, “even though I wasn’t really allowed to listen to much outside of Christian radio.”

Smith recognizes that her new direction could be alienating to people from her past, including her family. But her siblings also play secular-ish music: Her brother, Josh Tillman, is otherwise known as Father John Misty, and her other brother Zach records as Pearly Gate Music. These days, Smith says she’s ready to be vulnerable, while exercising her creativity in the process.

Citrine is rounded out by guitarist Galen Smith (Kelci’s husband, who also played in Kindlewood) and drummer Beau Cole. Based in Baltimore, the trio recorded “This Fabric” in a factory that produces bridge supports. The space smells like chemicals, Smith says, and it hums with activity during the week. But Citrine recorded its entire debut EP, April, in one weekend, wrapping in time for workers to return Monday.

The prolific recording session may have benefited from luck — which is apt, given the meaning behind the band’s moniker.

“I picked the name Citrine because I wanted a little bit of luck,” Smith says, “and the crystal citrine is supposed to bring happiness… and good fortune.”

Citrine’s debut EP, April, comes out April 22.