Colbie Caillat

Caillat's dusty alto is dead sexy on this debut album of airy modern pop, inspiring weak knees on slow jams like "One Fine Wire" and "Feelings Show." Throughout, the reduction of Latin guitar and swinging tempos is a tasteful match with the soulful inflections. She starts "Bubbly" -- one of the many lofty mid-tempo numbers about rain on windowpanes and yuppie love -- by sweetly requesting "Will you count me in?" and by the time it fades out, you're likely to give her whatever she wants.

In a landscape populated by lawless and unrehab-able female pop stars, it's easy to see the
Everygal appeal of this twenty-two-year-old MySpace sensation. Caillat sings about letting
her feelings show on a mellow acoustic-guitar-and-piano song with a soulful swing, but
over a dozen bland, sunny tunes, it's hard to pin her down. Her songs are entirely
inoffensive -- that's probably why she rocketed to Number One on the iTunes ch... More >