BY day Dawn Landes engineers albums for Ryan Adams, Hem and Philip Glass in New York studios; by night, her own songs are yet to breach the boundaries of Brooklyn's anti-folk scene.
However, Fireproof, her debut release in Britain, should follow Cat Power, Laura Veirs and Feist in finding favour with the Bob Harris and Uncut congregation.
Both her Kentucky trad roots and her instinct for memorable sound textures inform her lyrical, sometimes dark ballads whose simple folk or country structures give dime-store guitar, glockenspiel, accordion, bells, toys and electronica their moment in the light.
Her voice is inviting yet not averse to the disarming chill indicated by such titles as Twilight, Private Little Hell and Dig Me A Hole.
Never mind that her low-key cover of Tom Petty's I Won't Back Down only hardens regret at the absence of her bluegrass romp through Peter, Bjorn & John's Young Folks: that burst of joy awaits you on You Tube instead.
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