Images of travel course through Hydroplane, but Kristin Mooney doesnt traffic in greasy trucker tales. Moody instead uses her traveling imagery where you find highways like veins or encounter a dream color bus to convey her characters physical and emotional rootlessness. While Mexican highway offers a postcard view of artichoke fields / Lane that a tourist rarely sees, it also finds the protagonist revealing: You used to know me / I used to know you too. In the title track, Moodys evocative, elliptical lyrics (Sometimes you call when you drink / And dishes fill the sink / Curled up in a chair / I ask are you still there) subtly suggest a relationship on the skids. Moodys languid, torch-noir sound recalls Sam Phillips, but with fewer baroque touches and less sense of despair. While Mooney isnt especially prolific shes released just three discs in the past decade this alluring, exquisite album is well worth the wait.