Recording once more with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago, Nina engaged Los Angeles instrumentalist and arranger Paul Bryan (prod./arr.: Grant Lee Buffalo, Aimee Mann; instrum.: Allen Toussaint, Mavis Staples, Lucinda Williams and many more) to adapt her songs into a score for a small orchestra. Though the signposts of Nastasia's sensibility are still present: songcraft impeccable but not fussy, lyrics intelligent and provocative but not overly enamored with their own cleverness, her work continues to startle and intrigue even Nina Nastasia obsessives. 'Outlaster' might be an unsettling and revelatory experience, like reading a book that you've only seen film adaptations of.Zur Kurzzusammenfassung