“Nellie McKay is all over the place — wonderfully so. Whether she’s delivering social commentary while strumming a ukulele in "Adios," exorcising the spirit of a devilish former lover over a festive bed of New Orleans jazz in "Dispossessed" or setting vegetarian activism to "Unknown Reggae," this mercurial New York singer-songwriter brings both ample wit […]”
“Under her perky persona Nellie McKay has always hidden a prickly disposition, which comes out on her most intensely, intently melancholy album yet.”
