On 26-year-old Jaymay's full-length debut, sites throughout the Big Apple serve as guideposts (Central Park, Grand Central Station, St. Marks Place) as her acoustic guitar and feather-light vocals detail an artsy relationship gone awry. Her keen and clever wordplay walks a line between the quirkiness of Regina Spektor and the bitterness of Fiona Apple, describing the fallout of her relationship with such seasonal phrasing as, "I miss winter just because I miss when I knew you best." While the xylophone-tinged "Gray or Blue" and the solemn, gently swaying "Sea Green, Sea Blue" offer intimate glimpses of unrequited love and heartache, the near 10-minute waltz "You'd Rather Run" is a bit heavily worded and "Hard to Say" borders on ostentatious jazz. It's coffeehouse music straight from the drip, and if that's how you take it, this should do the trick. —Jill Menze