While Claire Bowditch does cliché-catchy perfectly on the opening toe tapping tune You Look So Good, the delightfully offbeat lyrics and lullingly stilted melodies of the string arrangements announce this album has a dark underside. Standout tracks Peccadilloes and This Bastard Disease highlight the haunting echoes in Bowditch’s voice and arrangements, thus guaranteeing the full weight of the lyrics hit the listener. However, while she journeys to the edge, she doesn’t lose herself to the dark side, pullingout playful tunes such as When the Lights Went Down. Although such tracks are sure to draw comparisons to Missy Higgins, the album’s complexities of emotion and genre ensure Claire a place well beyond anyone’s shadow. –Megan Smith