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Ten years into her career -- a decade spent playing support with everybody from
and
to
--
hit her stride with
. Working with
,
expands the parameters of her music so they no longer strictly adhere to the definition of Americana. Make no mistake, her folk and country roots are evident on
, not hidden. They can be heard on instrumental accents and, especially,
' song construction, which is so expert that the seams don't show. Upon this sturdy foundation,
gives her songs arrangements that defy simple genre classification. "Parking Lot Pirouette" offers something of a warning for
's adventurousness, opening the album with a spacy waltz that seems to stretch out into the open sky. From there,
threads allusions to new wave, jangle pop, lumbering
skronk, urgent anthems, haunting pop, and comforting ballads. It's a sonic tour de force, but like her songs,
isn't splashy: it's handsome and layered, alluring upon the first impression but revelatory upon revisits. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine