Nikka Costa - Everybody Got Their Something

Kicks off with "Like A Feather", the stripped-back funk of which is still both weird and cool six years on from when I must've first been hearing it on the radio, but the definite highlight of the album comes next - "So Have I For You", in which Costa channels Janis Joplin by means of a slidin' funk-soul-rock'n'roll meld, one of those that feels not so much like a hybrid as a reaching back to the original roots of the forms (albeit infused with a modern sensibility, much of which is imported by the glitzy production). The next couple, "Tug of War" and the title track, are good too, but she isn't able to sustain the quality over the whole record; still, all up it's well worth the listen...definitely a good 'un.