Jesse Sykes is from the Pacific Northwest, with a voice like Dusty Springfield dragged through David Lynch Twin Peaks swamp-surf guitar muck, dipped in Sandy Denny's smoky patina, sometimes descending into Marianne Faithfull rasp. "Reckless Abandon" is from 2002, and that one has the Lynch/Badalamenti stamp. 2004's "Oh My Girl" moves from Lynch territory to an alt-country-ish Cowboy Junkies feel, narcotic, soporific -- nothing much even gets into mid-tempo. Yeah, your first reaction may be "Isn't this a little too artfully affected?" but she's got the talent to back it up.
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