Jolie Holland - Escondida

Jolie's become one of my favourites over the last six to nine months or so, and this, her debut proper (there was one before it that I haven't listened to, Catalpa, a subsequent release of a demo recording) has the same soft-edged, sharp-centred charm as Springtime Can Kill You and The Living and the Dead. It's quieter, drawing more on the sparser jazz and folk elements of her music and, particularly, singing, but lovely in much the same vein.