Greyhound

Greyhound may be Katie Tupper’s debut album, but the Saskatoon-born indie-R&B singer is blessed with the sort of smoky, soulful voice that suggests she’s already endured a lifetime’s worth of heartache and hardships, and embraced the wisdom she’s earned along the way. Tupper isn’t one for showy vocal gymnastics—her slow ’n’ low delivery projects a look-you-in-the-eye fearlessness even in her most vulnerable moments, like when she’s extricating herself from a suffocating codependent relationship on the piano ballad “Disappear” or succumbing to the queasy side effects of unrequited desire on the hazy-headed lullaby “Sick to My Stomach.” And even when she hitches a ride on the fleet-footed funk backbeat of “Right Hand Man,” her voice exudes a frosty-breathed allure that could freeze time.