Jenny Gillespie – “Light Year”

Chicago-based singer-songwriter Jenny Gillespie’s follow up to her 2004 EP Love and Ammunition is the floating, piano driven Light Year.

Like a Joni Mitchell record, it’s filled with delicate piano melodies and non-standard guitar tunings giving the songs a slightly off-kilter sound.

Still, she manages to make the eight songs work, tying them together with her gliding vocals that can jump from nearly spoken to ethereal.

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