House of mirrors

"Her light-as-a-feather voice delivers those weighty lyrics with an intimate tone so confiding it demands attention. Gilad Hekselman's shimmering guitar refracts kaleidoscopic light on the title track, while Roemer's "Beauty Is A Wound," a tribute to her late mother, is driven by Rogerio Boccato's emotionally charged percussion. But the bandleader lightens up a bit: She's positively coy, vamping on Stanley Turrentine's "Sugar," and brings a honeyed tone to Charles Mingus' "Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love" that does justice to the masters who inspired her".