Search - Rebecca Pronsky :: Viewfinder

Rebecca Pronsky may be Brooklyn-based, but the dark, twangy folk she creates on her Nine Mile sophomore disc Viewfinder sounds more at home in the deep woods and green pastures of Maine where it was recorded. Aside from Mercury News (penned by friend Lucy Wainwright Roche) and the bouncy Give Up Too Easily, it's a melancholy affair. Pronsky addresses mostly personal topics - love, relationships, doubt - from a variety of interesting angles. Pronsky has been lauded in the past for her strong jazz-trained voice, but it's the maturation of her songwriting and arrangements on Viewfinder (with kudos to guitarist Rich Bennett who co-produced with Pronsky, and Scott Solter who mixed) that set it atop the current crop of singer-songwriter records.