Dawn Landes - Sweetheart Rodeo

UK pressing of the New York-based Indie Folk singer/songwriter's 2009 album. Recorded in Landes' own studio (Salt lands in Brooklyn) with regular collaborator, drummer and all-rounder Ray Rizzo, guitarist Josh Kaufman and bassist Annie Nero, the album kicks off with 'Young Girl', which ponders gender stereotyping - competitive boys, jealous girls - over a reductive and distorted keyboard riff. The haunting 'Money in the Bank' marries down-home hippie wisdom ('the night before you die, what are you gonna buy?') to a glorious chorus bolstered by a wistful French horn. Landes even drums on an unlikely cover of Margo Guryan's already unlikely 'Love', a 1968 collision of cool Jazz and nascent Psychedelia. By the album's conclusion, the wobbly wedding march of 'All Dressed in White', you'll probably be thinking of giving love a try. Cooking Vinyl.

1) Young Girl
2) Romeo
3) Money in the Bank
4) Love
5) Sweetheart of the Rodeo
6) Clown
7) Wandering Eye
8) Little Miss Holiday
9) Dance Area
10) Brighton
11) All Dressed in White