Juana Molina

Tres Cosas is less an album than an extended meditation, a kind of heat-drenched daydream that could send you into fields to lie under trees and watch the sky turn slowly overhead…permanently. Molina practically whispers the songs to herself, coloring each with subtle guitar and anemic electronics, crafting something ephemeral, delicate and lovely.

With Argentina well over on the European edge of "Latin"--which is mostly African whatever its Spanish antecedents--it's no surprise that this reformed television actress should trick up her boring strummed singer-songwritering with not terribly interesting electronica. With the market for both modes desperate for marginal differentiation, it's also no surprise that she gets a bump for being exotic if not literally dark-skinned. Needless to say, there are no surprises anywhere else either. That really isn't how soundscaping is supposed to work. (Grade - C)