Nellie McKay - Obligatory Villagers

Shorter and with the music hall and jazz elements of McKay's palette more in the foreground than either Get Away From Me or Pretty Little Head, Obligatory Villagers isn't the match of either of those earlier efforts, but it's a dip rather than a serious falling-away in quality - the things that are great about her music (and her) are still in evidence, and of course we do like those things very, very much.