Castro's maturity as an artist is apparent from the first track, as she adapts "Dalliance" by The Wedding Present, making it her own by layering pedal steel and acoustic guitars. It's a wry, subtly arch choice to launch this particular solo debut. In one of the album's highlights, de Castro strikes a darker tone with Hank Starrs's "East St. O'Neill." With a deceptively languid start and sparkling imagery, it builds slowly on a theme of murder and sorrow, rising on the strength of rousing chord c.