Israeli singer/songwriter Noa Babayof crafts lightly orchestrated, slightly dark folk-pop on her U.S. debut, From a Window to a Wall. Recorded in Philadelphia and sung entirely in English, there's a distant relation to the kind of art song-inclined albums Judy Collins made in the late '60s and early '70s. Babayof's measured, reserved vocal delivery, however, has more in common with Margo Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies or Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star. The ingenious arrangements (includ...   [ read more ]

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