RADAR: Natalie Prass

After a pair of promising EP's over the past couple years -- the full-fleshed Small and Sweet from 2009 and last year's stripped Demos -- we think Nashville singer/songwriter Natalie Prass is due for some new music. Hopefully she feels the same way, too, and the fact that she's playing a showcase at this year's Soundland in Nashville come September makes us optimistic. As you'll hear from the two tracks below, Prass has a way with a novel song structure, propelling her melodies with a twisting, turning, what's-coming-next unpredictability, a style that would seem more suited to L.A.'s Hotel Cafe or N.Y.'s Living Room art-pop scene. We're not completely taken with everything, particularly with a few of the Demos (guess that's why they call them demos), but when they're good, they're very, very good. Stream Small and Sweet here (go immediately to the title track).

Natalie Prass - "Deer" (from the Small and Sweet EP)

Natalie Prass - "Good Faith" (from the Demos EP)