Silver Heart by Caroline Keating (Montréal, Canada) *
Too often, pretty girls with good voices rely on exactly that, nothing else and fail. But Caroline Keating beat her disease. Despite being a pretty girl and having a great voice, she worked hard to master composition: as proven by a sharp juxtaposition of rhythmic piano playing against classic melodies and big-band swells, demanding, of the listener, complete attention. This isn’t a record you just put on in the background while you prance around doing spring cleaning. Well maybe it is, but at some point, you owe it more. Dingus
