Lisa Miller - Pushover EP

Both less and more than a standard ep - less in the sense that it comes across as something like an extended single, including an album cut, an alternate take, a few live tracks and only one wholly new song, but more in the sense that it runs for some 40 minutes, and so outdistancing plenty of alleged long players. What material there is, though, falls into that vast category of 'pleasant but not exceptional'. The title track's alright, but not one of Miller's stronger singles, while the alternate version is overlong and sub-Beth Orton in style; the live cuts are uniformly solid; the cover of Gram Parson's "Hickory Wind" works, preserving the wispy melancholy of the original.