“I really, really appreciate music that is great pop music that is totally interesting, but is also complicated,” vocalist Clare Manchon said of her band’s densely-layered pop sound. “I love that sort of illusion.”

Constructing that illusion onstage requires more than just the usual guitar, drums and bass. Brooklyn’s Clare and the Reasons incorporate cellos, violas and even kazoos into their complex arrangements.

Using so many instruments at once can present a problem, though.

“It’s a juggling act of [trying to get] what we do on the record live,” Manchon said. In order to accomplish that, the band has come up with an inventive, if labor-intensive, solution: each member plays multiple instruments at once.

Such a wide-ranging embrace of experimentation is at the heart of their musical tastes. Citing Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder as two earlier examples of their elaborate-yet-accessible form, Clare and the Reasons aim for a different sort of musical experience – they call it chamber pop with an edge.

“We really like to be complicated. We don’t know how to be really simple,” Manchon said.

For their album “Arrow,” it wasn’t simplicity they were aiming for so much as accessibility. The group tried to incorporate more modern sounds into their repertoire resulting in something she calls “a sort of natural progression,” she said.

Part of that can be attributed to the place where the album was recorded: a home studio, where Clare would write; her husband and main musical collaborate Olivier would arrange; and Bob Hart, the third Reason, would help record.

“It was quite different, but it was great being able to record in my pajamas,” Manchon said.

Being out on the road now to help promote “Arrow” may be a big departure from Manchon’s apartment studio, but the band is perfectly comfortable with that. They’ve had experience touring Europe, where they will return for five weeks to tour again in March, and have no problem adjusting to road life as an up-and-coming band.

“I feel like when we’re touring, we’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing,” Manchon said. This tour in particular will be something unique: Clare has designed and hand-sewn each of the band member’s costumes and plans on cooking for the band while they travel.

The group says they stay on a roughly two-year cycle with each album. And since “Arrow” just came out, that means there are still plenty of shows left to play to help spread their sound.

“We’re going to tour, tour, tour,” Manchon said, “and then sleep for a few months.”