Consumer Guide Album

Victoria Williams: Musings of a Creekdipper [Atlantic, 1998]
There's eccentric and then there's loopy, and this fragile, well-named follow-up is loopy; Loose could be a Peter Asher record by comparison. Williams ruminates around with trap washes and a tentative piano fanfare before delivering a discursive, indirect opener, and is moved to recollect the entrancing "Kashmir's Corn" before settling into more declarative material, as in: "I'd like to take this time to complain about the train!" Give it time and you could fall hard. I swear, bucolic dreamers aren't my cup of branch water either. A-