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Sandrine Kiberlain ‘M’envoyer des fleurs’ (“I Send Myself Flowers”) I’m not a big fan of actresses trying to dabble in music, but Kiberlain — a veteran of more than 20 French films — pulls it off with her wispy delivery in this exquisitely melodic toe-tapper about self-empowerment. “I decided to do right by myself, to draw myself a bath,” she sings. “Spread out all the photos of myself, to praise them up and down. I’ll send myself flowers to talk to me about me. Praise myself loudly. A bunch of roses to congratulate myself for being me.”

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Kate Rogers ‘Big Mouth Strikes Again’ From her 3rd album, Seconds, which features some downtempo covers including this Smiths classic.

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Jack Savoretti ‘Russian Roulette’ From the half-English, half-Italian troubadour’s second CD which does away with the over-zealous production of the debut for a more organic approach. This is one of two gems in ‘Harder than Easy,’ where Savoretti sings about life as a veteran suffering guilt at surviving combat.

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Matt Hires ‘Out of the Dark’  The 23-year-old Florida native fuses the intimacy of the great singer/songwriters with indelible pop/rock hooks and propulsive rhythms. With its whistled beginning, “Out Of The Dark” is one of the standouts from his debut CD “Take Us to the Start.”

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Harper Simon ‘The Audit’ October 13 saw the release of the debut CD by Simon, son of one Paul Simon. While you can find traces of his fabled tunesmith dad in his delivery, he sounds eerily like Elliott Smith in this melancholy hum-along. Oh, and another famous offspring plays drums in this track: Sean Lennon.