
(photo by Rebecca Miller) A gentle, coy, nearly-too-endearing-for-its-o wn good emanates from Catherine A.D. , a woman who hones her honeyed voice over lilting piano and simple orchestration of drums and chamber-pop-instruments. Many comparisons have been made to a sort of hybridization of fellow countrymen Kate Bush and Patrick Wolf, but we actually hear much more of Stories From The City -era PJ Harvey . She's just released an EP called Carry Your Heart , and in its three songs, we get all sorts of wonderful fire, chanteuse-like cooing and dark sturm und [...]