Cindy Davis

Situated comfortably between the moody days of Coldplay and your pick of today's finest songwriters, Davis' "A Year or More" is one of those rare collections of songs which can turn on you in the most satisfying of ways. It sounds as good with the lights down low as it does crescendoing out of your car's blown left speaker, and there's nothing but melody and fine arrangements to blame for that. These nine tracks are subtly loaded with nuance, intimacy and the kind of songwriting that you'll find yourself still listening to long after you've taken the headphones off.