This six-track EP from Halifax duo Magnolia is all kinds of cute (think July Talk without the high energy sex appeal) and not just because singer Leanne Hoffman is a dead ringer for Partridge Family-era Susan Dey. "Time Will Tell" and "Wandering" are jazzy, upbeat Angelo Badalamenti-ian meanderers, while "Honey Please" is a great duet. Things do get downright steamy and heartbreaking on "The Thought of Love" and Hoffman gives her best Jenny Lewis on closer "Cold Dry Hands". The thing is, you can make comparisons all day long, but the music these two make is completely and utterly Magnolia.

Published in Volume 68, Number 13 of The Uniter (November 27, 2013)