There’s an unhurried, timeless quality to this second album from the California singer-songwriter Jessica Pratt. Recorded at home, her songs are deceptively simple affairs, her soft voice backed for the most part just by acoustic guitar, with other instruments occasionally drifting in and out of focus. The sophisticated songwriting nods to Joni Mitchell and Sibylle Baier, but an appealing playfulness is evident too: witness the way Pratt unexpectedly drops her voice into a lower register on Greycedes. It all makes for an absorbing performance and intriguing album.
