This charming French-born singer from Montreal and Brooklyn was previously heard on American Laundromat tribute LPs devoted to
the Cure,
Pixies,
Kim Deal, and
Neil Young, but other than the most passing resemblance to the last of these four, her own music betrays no origin in any of the above. She writes pleasant, carefree, eminently nice folk-pop tunes that she plays mostly herself and sings in English -- sprinkling in pretty piano, gentle cello, and other warm and winsome touches to flesh out comforting acoustic fingerpicking and her coffeehouse,
Dolores O'Riordan-like voice. Need some music to improve your mood?
Julie Peel has the chamomile you need.