Sally Seltmann - Heart That's Pounding

There's a lot to like about Heart That's Pounding - Seltmann's knack for sweet tunes and interesting arrangements, a song ("Dream About Changing") whose main, and totally catchy, hook is the refrain "I'm a little bit shy" (and repeat), an overall coherency which makes the differentiation as between individual songs all the more impressive...I could wish that it had more of the delicately nocturnal, music-box air of her New Buffalo recordings, but this is a very nice record on its own terms, more rousing and outward-looking than anything she's done before.