PARPLAR

I was starting to wonder if LARKIN GRIMM would ever see her art as more than personal therapy but as a means to connect with an audience beyond the double digits, and along came 2008's "Parplar". Same voice but a poppier, more relatable weirdness. The full band helps coax a variety of Appalachian and celtic influences out of their long hibernation. The juxtaposition of styles and arrangements makes for an engrossing listen from start to finish, with nary a misstep, be it the arrestingly lively "Ride that Cyclone", "Mino Minou", and "Fall on my Knees", the more balladic but lyrically fascinating "Blond and Gold Johns" and "Anger in My Liver", the country ish "Be my Host", or the unsettling chants of "Durge". If you heard her earlier work and threw up your arms in defeat, give this one a chance.

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