Kevin Bronson on April 26th, 2012

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Carina Round is a woman of many voices, full of vigor and empowerment one moment, tender and vulnerable the next, and a bit art-damaged at others. All speak in varying tones on “Tigermending,” the U.K.-bred, Los Angeles.-based songstress’s first album in five years. Compared to PJ Harvey in her early days on Interscope, Round has slowly grown into her own music during her years in L.A. – owing, she reasons, to her seemingly expanding circle of collaborators. She’s a touring member of Puscifer, lending her vocals to Maynard James Keenan’s project, and has also teamed up with Greg Dulli’s Twilight Singers, Brian Eno, Dave Stewart and Billy Corgan. She even dabbled in alt-country as part of the Early Winters. “Tigermending” (out next week) deftly balances the dark and the light, never boring or heavy-handed, representing, as the lyrics to to “Girl and the Ghost” suggest, that Round has recognized “the difference between what you think you know / and what you know.”

||| Download: “Girl and the Ghost”

||| Live: Carina Round celebrates her album release with a show May 2 at the Satellite.

||| Previously: “The Last Time”

Photo by Kristin Burns

||| Also: After the jump, check out Scott Rhea’s video for “The Last Time”: