Tiny Specks of Delight

2012

1.Spring Wind
2.Kaleidoscopes
3.The Ringleader
4.Tiny Specks Of Delight

“You’d have to go out of your way to find a more charming EP released in 2012. And even then, you’d have a hard time  finding another young woman with an alluring french accent singing timeless-sounding, British-flavored folk alongside a country pedal steel. With a move from San Francisco to Los Angeles, Hélène Renaut embraces West Coast tones steeped in the music history of Southern California's canyons. In the opening "Spring Wind", she coos heavy-lidded inflections as acoustic guitar arpeggios and twangy tones slow-dance around her voice. Imagine Françoise Hardy singing over Bert Jansch's 1974 opus L.A. Turnaround, and you're halfway there. Renaut's voice is more unique and bewitching than her contemporaries orinfluences. A full band accompanies her on "Kaleidoscopes", a song that's more rooted in whimsical chamber-folk than the psychedelic title suggests. But her lyrics here and throughout Tiny Specks of Delight muse on the ongoing process of falling in and out of love with all the bittersweet beauty of a Wes Anderson film.” 

- iTunes