Jolie Holland - Catalpa

She's the closest that a human voice has come to sounding like the theremin and the singing saw, which is a good and a bad thing. Sometimes I buy into the mystery of her inscrutibility, and her ancient-futurist sound. Sometimes I lose patience. I definitely think her interest in other genres is a good thing, but her jazz on the new album bores me. Rock steady, baby. Duke Reid, there's her grail.