In the closing seconds of “Winter is Passing,” Zoe Randell, the singing half of Australian duo Luluc, questions, “Winter is passing. I wonder what’s to come?” She doesn’t proffer an answer. Instead, she delivers only this simple observation and patient inquiry. Throughout each of the other nine songs on “Passerby,” Randell conveys a similar lack of urgency, noting both her surroundings and the thoughts and memories they generate but never providing interpretation.

Each of Luluc’s 10 songs begins with the simple, pleasant plod of Steve Hassett’s acoustic guitar. The occasional cymbal shimmer or snare brush adds texture to Hassett’s soothing, steady-as-a-faucet pluck. So uncluttered and Spartan are the arrangements that the simultaneous entrance of a snare crack and saxophone wash just past the four-minute mark of “Tangled Heart” bears the conspicuous esteem of a grand, sweeping gesture.

Hassett’s fingerpicked guitar burbles along like a creek tucked deep in the woods, with each song pulled along in a collection of minuscule, distinct moments.