On such original compositions as “Weightless,” “I’ll Notice,” “Traveler’s Blessing” and “The Riddle,” Stevens’ “remarkable, soulful, pitch-perfect” (Winston-Salem Journal) vocals communicate both immense warmth and effortless urgency, while her exquisitely crafted tunes embrace inventive acoustic textures and idiosyncratic rhythmic and melodic elements.  The resulting music resists easy categorization, drawing upon elements of pop, jazz and folk without limiting itself to the rules of any particular genre.

In addition to its eight original Stevens compositions, Weightless also features a quartet of distinctive reworkings of songs by other artists.  Those cover tunes—The Smiths’ “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out,” Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose,” Animal Collective’s “My Girls” and Iron & Wine’s “Each Coming Night”—demonstrate Becca’s stylistic versatility as well as her impressive ability to find an emotional connection with material from wildly divergent sources.

Stevens, a graduate of The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York, met her bandmates (Liam Robinson, accordion, keys, and vocals; Chris Tordini, bass and vocals; Jordan Perlson, drums and percussion) while attending the institution. They recorded Weightless at Manhattan’s Sear Sound with veteran producer Matt Pierson (Joshua Redman, Jane Monheit and Kirk Whalum).

Be the first to get the new album at the Album Release Event April 4th at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2, NYC.