I Oughtta Give You a Shot in the Head for Making Me Live in This Dump

Shivaree are a three-piece revolving around the singing and songwriting of the truly fantastically named Ambrosia Parsley, who clearly thinks as highly of Jane Siberry and Mary Margaret O'Hara as she ever did of Patsy Cline or Margo Timmins. The songs on I Oughtta Give You A Shot In The Head... are oblique, meandering, but insidiously tuneful creations which lapse into Sheryl Crow territory once or twice (specifically, "Daring Lousy Guy" and "Pimp") but are mostly arrestingly great. It is to be hoped there will be much more where this fine debut came from. --Andrew Mueller