Angela Desveaux

'The Mighty Ship'

Montreal songbird seeks proper setting for her moving croon.

Spin Rating6 of 10

Angela Desveaux rests on the alt-country continuum somewhere between Lucinda Williams and Neko Case, though she's never as intensely brooding as the former or as poppily populist as the latter. The Canadian singer-songwriter's second album loses some of her former twang, going for Pretenders-style rocking ("Hide From You") and twilight wooziness ("Joining Another"). Though Desveaux hasn't ditched the steel guitar completely -- see the ambling "The Way You Stay" -- she's smart to dress her aching, powerful voice in something other than rhinestones.

By Josh Modell

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1 Cloud Nothings 'Attack on Memory'
2 Cloud Nothings 'Attack on Memory'
3 Kathleen Edwards 'Voyageur'
4 The Mark Lanegan Band 'Blues Funeral'
5 The Mark Lanegan Band 'Blues Funeral'
6 Leonard Cohen 'Old Ideas'
7 Escort 'Escort'
8 Escort 'Escort'
9 Escort 'Escort'
10 Himanshu 'Nehru Jackets'

Angela Desveaux

'The Mighty Ship'

The Mark Lanegan Band 'Blues Funeral'

Of Montreal 'Paralytic Stalks'

Van Halen 'A Different Kind of Truth'

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