I'm sure there's some very simple explanation for why so much of the best folk-touched music sounds spooky, haunted - something obvious to those who know about how music is put together, to do with tunings or keys or somesuch. It doesn't much matter to me, and whatever it is, Jessica Pratt's beguiling songs are wrapped up in it, while also twinkling with something more contemporary in spirit, all blended very well with her unusual voice (hard to find words to describe it, save to say that it sounds out of time). Simple, and also somehow intricate, and - after enough listens - increasingly memorable in its seemingly quiet way.
