Folk - Prince Edward Island singer/songwriter Catherine MacLellan returns for her third outing with Water In the Ground, an album filled with graceful folk melodies, a sparse and spacious intimacy and MacLellan's lovely, warm and lustrous voice. Brighter and a little less delicate than her last album, 2007's gorgeous, dark and confessional Church Bell Blues, this new 12-song collection shows off a purposeful fuller sound: ""Church Bell was mostly me," she admits, "(and) I wanted to make a band album and that's what we did."

"It's an observational, country-shuffle sort of record," writes the Halifax Coast, "with songs fit for barn dances and campfires, amphitheatres and folk festivals, sung in MacLellan's languid, soothing voice." The relaxed, bluesy tone of "Take A Break" swings softly with a strutting bass line and jazzy guitar break, MacLellan's lilting voice giving the song the trappings of a lost country jukebox classic. But even with a few uptempo tracks such as "Break" or "Not Much To Do (Not Much To Say)" giving Water In the Ground a fresh energy, it is MacLellan's ballads that still manage to steal the show. "Seriously, if your throat is lump-free after the devastating goodbye song 'Flowers On Your Grave'," observes The Standard, "check your pulse. MacLellan is that good, and that ready for prime time."

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