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4.0 out of 5 stars
Genre-hopping collection of Americana, April 25, 2006
This review is from: Thank You Mark (Audio CD)
Having arrived in the early 90s with the Southern alternative/punk band Lay Quiet Awhile, and then dropping sides for Subpop and Kill Rock Stars, Howle's covered a lot of ground. Her first new album in four years dwells more on country, jazz, and soul flavors, and offers surprising variety within its 36 minutes. Howle's latest songs include acoustic-electric Americana, country-jazz, cabaret swing, folk, '50s styled R&B, and more. She's impressive throughout, but it's her confidence and the quality of individual tracks that hold the disc together, rather than an overarching sense of the album as a singular project. Think of Michelle Shocked's genre-hopping catalog of folk-rock, country-blues, and swing compressed into a single CD. 3-3/4 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [©2006 hyperbolium dot com]
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