The amazing follow up to Kate's 'Devils Rope', one of my all time favorite records. Kate writes intoxicatingly catchy melodies with wordplay that twists and turns and doubles back with more depth at every listening. A nighttime world seen through the womanly dark eyes of a mysterious, lovely, sharp shooter of a gal.
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Sonic Reducer

Kate Mann Things Look Different When the Sun Goes Down (Self-released)
It’s been a while since Portland-based desert gypsy rocker Kate Mann called New Mexico home, but the Land of Enchantment still swims in her blood. Her latest release remains intimate even as it fills to the brim with acoustic and electric guitar, fiddle, cello, accordion, piano, saw and harmonica. Mann’s sleepy-eyed acoustic ballads sit at one end of the bar, while cello-heavy movers and shakers beg for another shot at the other. Things Look Different is an album that gets its point across with forceful grace
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“Kate Mann’s third solo album is full of the kind of rich, graceful folk that spreads warmth through your body like a big mug of hot chocolate on a chilly winter day. Mann's voice has a depth and soul that instantly grabs your attention, and it works especially well on slightly ominous numbers. 
Haunting and memorable, it's also irresistible.”
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“Kate Mann's voice struts out of your speakers like a Southern belle dancing in the alleyways of a Nashville ghetto; her sway and cadence sashays over a decidedly Red-Stated influence, making songs like "Robert Johnson Knew" hot, even in the cold Northwest. Mann's new album, Things Look Different When the Sun Goes Down, splashes Pollock speckles of torn struggles, never musically relenting on the hunch that most days have their fair share of speed bumps. The songs do manage to remain hopeful, however, thanks to the power of Mann's poetic verses and the mystical bliss of deep cello on songs like "Needles and Pins," or with accordion on the Spanish-sung "La Llorona." So it seems the sun also rises on Kate Mann's horizon; thankfully we're there to see it.”
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