![Elin Palmer: Postcard [Album Review]](http://cache.elbo.ws/posts/2066784_lg.jpg)
Swedish folk musician turned Denver resident, Elin Palmer varies her song-craft between orchestration and experimentation. Her songs mesh the two arenas of folk, often dabbling in a fairly sizable amount of pop as well. Palmer's brilliance is partly due to her mystic voice - the Swedish accent is truly what does it. But wherever the unique instrumentation dominates, sheer brilliance ensues. Title track "Postcard", and epic closer "Whaleboat" find Palmer developing that interesting balance between the two sounds (orchestral and experimental). The former, as the opening song on [...]