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Artist: Jenny Owen Youngs: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Other Rock     Discography:      Batten the Hatches    Year: 2007    Tracks: 13      The Scrappy Demo    Year: 2004    Tracks: 6 Coming up strong behindhand R. Stevie Moore as the to the highest degree talented singer/songwriter to be based in the nondescript chamber community of Montclair, NJ, Jenny Owen Youngs looks like Lindsay Lohan's indie-kid jr. sister (though, ironically, the baby-faced Youngs is in fact around a half-decade old than the hard-partying actress-singer) only sounds like an all successful spinal fusion of Liz Phair's perceptive and nervily comical lyrics and the orchestrated folk-pop of Regina Spektor and Erin McKeown, with barely a wind of Nellie McKay's jazzy floor show leanings and Cat Power's throaty, confessional angst. Born in New Jersey in 1981 and raised in the usual suburban environs, Youngs number 1 picked up the guitar at the age of 14 and attended the music program at the State University of New York at Purchase at a clip when that previously hidden prowess school was single-handed populating what would become the entire New York "anti-folk" picture: besides Youngs and Spektor, Jeffrey Lewis, Langhorne Slim, and the Moldy Peaches' Adam Green and Kimya Dawson were all SUNY-Purchase graduates. Maintaining a friendship with Spektor, world Health Organization chose Youngs as her curtain raising act on the tours undermentioned her breakthrough album, Soviet Kitsch, Youngs wrote and recorded her debut album, 2005's self-released Batten the Hatches. Although the album garnered in general positivist reviews, it attracted small notice until one of its highlights, the remorseful "Screwing Was I," was put-upon in the second-season undoer of the democratic overseas wire sitcom Weeds. Signing with the Canadian indie Nettwerk Records, Youngs released a remixed and repackaged version of Batten the Hatches in early 2007.