Over the course of the past decade, Colorado-based Josephine Foster has always defied easy pigeonholing, her albums variously based on interpretations of Lorca and Emily Dickinson poems, 19th-century German lieder or Spanish folk songs. Her eighth solo album is perhaps her most straightforwardly accessible, recorded in Nashville with a band that backs her distinctive soaring vocals with shrewdly judged, sparse instrumentation – piano, double bass, pedal steel guitar. The results are frequently exquisite, most notably the morbidly compelling Amuse a Muse ("She's liable to decay/Her flesh will rot away from disuse"), and at times sound as if they've been beamed in from a different, more unhurried era.