PROGRESSIVE FOLK

icture the scene. , pregnant with her first child, walks from her house on Moon Mountain in Sonoma, Northern California, through a rose garden with an orchard to her studio, and makes what becomes her aptly named (Natural Music). Independently released and her first since 2014’s , this attractive set, subsequently recorded at three Californian studios with producer JR White, has many shades of 1970s singer-songwriter intimacy, especially on its pianobased opening tracks. It expands onto a vista of unforced bohemia, notably in audio journals such as and on the understated psychedelia of ; this is an album that more than reflects its idyllic setting.