The Sexy Accident’s 2009 release, “Now That She’s Gone,” showed a lot of potential, some of which frankly wasn’t quite realized. Fortunately, the Kansas City power-pop quartet’s new release, “You’re Not Alone,” moves closer to fulfilling the band’s promise.

The three tracks on the EP stray from power-pop considerably, to good effect. The opening title track begins with understated drums and lovely, low-register guitar sounds that support the rather sweet sentiment of the song, a tale of a couple relying on each other in unfamiliar, uncomfortable surroundings.

The second track, “I’m Just Trying to Help (Me Like You) [Redux],” is the first of two reworkings of tracks from the band’s prior full-length, “Mantoloking.” The track’s pitting of the mighty Mattel Optigan’s rhythm accompaniment against co-vocalist Camry Ivory’s shallow narrator may be ever-so-slightly gimmicky, but it works well enough that casual listeners may believe the song to be a lost late-‘60s/early-‘70s track. And it’s fun.

The closing track, “All Surface [Redux],” rounds out the EP well with sparkly guitars and keys that nicely suit the record’s somewhat wintry feel.

“You’re Not Alone” is put together well, produced and engineered locally at Westend Recording and in Seattle by Steve Fisk with just the right amount of polish, sounding lush but not overly slick.

Perhaps the most notable development to be found on “You’re Not Alone” is that the band plays to one of its biggest strengths by making much better — and frequent — use of Camry Ivory’s voice. Her vocals are much more prominent here than in the band’s last release, and serve this batch of songs well. Thankfully, the Sexy Accident seem to have jettisoned much that might have come across before as overly self-conscious in favor of an earnestness that better suits these songs. “You’re Not Alone” is a pleasant release overall and bodes well for the band’s next full-length, which is due in May.