's second LP is a minor masterpiece, built around a handful of hit singles and B-sides from the prior year ( ) and containing a pair of current single sides, and is amazing in her range, from the upbeat, romantic to the jaunty shouter -- her timbre ranges from sweetly romantic to hard and raspy, and listening to the transformations, between the smooth, quick tempo to the hard, lusty one thinks of a distaff . 's accompaniments may have lacked the polish of 's sides, and she wasn't really shooting for -crossover success (though she saw some). Her singing even overcomes excessively -oriented arrangements on At various times, in her upper register, recalls 's falsetto singing, while in her middle and lower registers, as on she comes up with a power that could melt a microphone stand. ~ Bruce Eder