DARK PLACE (LP)

Some singers can create a mood far before the first syllables of lyric have been woven into a full story; a tone, mixed to dissolve perfectly into music, can say it all. Such is the case with Jessie Baylin, whose ethereal voice shoots the opening notes of Dark Place, her fourth album, into instant emotive territory - it envelops in a mysterious gauze, setting the stage for what is her most raw, personal work yet and also her most thrilling.