Someone told me this record comes off like "Bryan Ferry meets Peggy Lee" and that is kind of an apt description in that the tone of the music has a kind of timeless, heroine, darkly feminine quality about it.  There is a cover of a Talking Heads song on here "Heaven" which is a real reinvention of the song, beautiful and haunting and I think I like it better than the original--which is also a great song but not nearly as emotive as Gretchen's version.  And then there is a crazy delicious Willie Nelson cover "Permanently Lonely" that could have been produced in any decade yet still somehow manages to sound new.  Gretchen is also doing her own songs really well here too.  "Dark Days" has some of the most inventive drumming I've heard in a long time and Gretchen's voice is emotive and subtle and "One Sweet Day", which is an original, could easily be a cut off a Sarah Vaughn record....
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