Keren Ann - Nolita - April 2005

Born in Israel to a russian israeli father and a Dutch mother raised in Paris and now living in the Manhattan neighborhood from which this album takes it's title. Keren Ann creates bilingual chamber pop that suggests French 60's chanteuse Francoise Hardy whispering ballads from the first Velvet Underground album. Like her 2004 english debut Not going Anywhere, and her previous French disques, Keren Ann's fourth album overflows with slow burning melancholy articulated by understated arrangements and the singer's withdrawn but emotionally precise voice. Despite its reference points Nolita's delicate purr is pure 2005 not the carefree soft rock of your parents hey day.

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