Sophie Auster is not the kind of singer likely to come up too often. Like a cross between Fiona Apple’s righteous rage and Gillian Welch’s homespun folk yarns, her bittersweet alto’s deft sense of delivery is a shot to the skull, wrapped up in some of the most alluring, seductive torch songs you’re liable to find in the city. ‘Square Moon,’ heard on latest EP ‘Red Weather,’ packs a punch as she learns all about the trials of spending time in Paris. But she’s just as likely to deliver searing reflections on past loves (title track ‘Red Weather’), or to expose secret desires in the excellent video for ‘Run, Run, Run’ (also streaming below). See her live on September 18 at Rockwood. – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)
