After the recent 6-song EP (reviewed elsewhere around here), this is the third long player by this New York based singer-songwriter … and I mean songwriter in that old fashioned, sophisticated, these days so hard to find, brainy sense of the word, as once established by the likes of Carol King or Laura Nyro.
Best heard in Green Street (also the EP’s opening track), she’s most usually sticking to the mentioned “tapestry” of sounds, occasionally “name-checking” other just-as-cool references, old and new, such as Todd Rundgren, Brian Wilson or Elvis Costello. To justify the ..Greenwich Village.. folky-beat looks on the cover shot, there’s a more conventional folky moment or two to be heard as well. In the covers department, this time it’s Joe Jackson’s Different For Girls, which she makes sound as if it could’ve easily been written especially for her.
[Released by Nettwerk 2009]
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