Anya Marina

Add Date: January 27

Artist: Anya Marina

Album: Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II

Label: Chop Shop/Atlantic

Genre: Pop rock, singer/songwriter

Comments: A promising, if at times inconsistent, collection of folksy pop songs from San Diego's Anya Marina. The high points are very high, in particular "Drop Dead Blues"--co-written by Spoon frontman Britt Daniel, and one of two songs he produced on the record--and "Waters of March (Aguas de Marco)." I also liked "High on the Ceiling" (the other Daniel production) and "Vertigo." Though there were several other tracks I really wanted to skip through, there's enough here to make this record worth checking out.