Katie Pruitt - Expectations

This is a good one - brightly anthemic songwriter stuff with a familiar combination of rock, electrified folk, grown up pop and countryish sounds, but done with a verve and sense of feeling that sets it apart. The high points - "Wishful Thinking", "My Mind's A Ship (That's Going Down)", the Haim-ish title track, "Loving Her") are much higher than the rest but it never drags, more fades a bit into the background at times at worst.

29/10: With continued listening this one has kept getting better. Two things in parallel and reinforcing each other - the more subtle melodies and pleasures of the less obvious songs emerging, and paying attention to the simple but moving lyrics, which dwell heavily on feelings of being on the outside while growing up and later coming into one's own (and coming out) and finding love (of self and with others), adding greater weight to the culmination of penultimate track "Loving Her".