Audio Mixer: Howard Bilerman.

Recording information: The Hotel 2 Tango, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (01/2006-09/2006).

Basia Bulat hangs out somewhere in the nether-regions between indie pop and folk inhabited by the likes of Calexico and Beth Orton. Buoyed by a gentle, jazz-tinged, expressive voice (more than a bit redolent of Natalie Merchant), the Canadian singer's elegant compositions drift from artful understatement to lush walls of sound with supreme grace. On a charming and diverse debut, OH, MY DARLING, Bulat ranges from the soft and soulful wistfulness of "Little Waltz" to the rousing, almost ecclesiastical "In the Night."