Keren Ann (Zeidel) assures us in the first tune on this amazing CD that she's not going anywhere, and she closes her effort by asking her listeners to follow her. Maybe, after you play the CD a few times (and you need to hear it more than once), you'll be glad she's promised to stick around. And maybe you'll be wanting to follow along as she embarks upon what looks like a bright career, too.This French-Israeli chanteuse, singing in English for the first time (she was recently profiled in "The New Yorker" magazine, which is where I first learned of her) is, well . . . hard to say exactly. Folkie? Too edgy. Pop? Not hardly! New age? I don't think so. Jazz? Umm no. Unclassifiable? Well I guess.In any case: Her tunes flow seamlessly on, sometimes soothing, sometimes scaring. Sometimes there are horns. Highlights, in addition to the opening and closing cuts would be "By the Cathedral," the chilling "End of May," and one of the most amazing songs I've ever heard, "Sailor and Widow," which has a strange galumphing minor-key march tempo. Its incendiary verses tumble out of Keren's mouth half spoken half sung (forget trying to follow along with the lyric sheet--wait till it's over and go back and check it out then) while she sings the chorus in a deadpan alto that is, on the grittiness scale, somewhere between Suzanne Vega and Kristin Hersh.If you give it a chance, odds are it'll be on your CD player for quite awhile.