Sometimes all you need is beautiful caterwaul of a voice.  Well, a beautiful caterwaul of a voice, a piano, a harp, and a raggle-taggle back-up band.  On Safe Inside the Day, Baby Dee falls somewhere in the nexus between Antony and the Johnsons, Lou Reed, David Tibet, and vaudeville cabaret.  Gifted with a true songwriter’s sensibility, Baby Dee has the auteur-like ability to give the listener a glimpse into a unique, and peculiar, vision of the world.  Each song has its own breath of life, but the overall effect is an album’s worth of tunes that wander down back alleys, threaten to go off the rails, and ultimately break your heart.  There’s an awful lot of lyrical pain onSafe Inside the Day, but Baby Dee expresses herself with the snarling charm of a survivor.  Making great music is the best revenge.

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