If you could take Alanis Morisette and squeeze out all her excesses � the squirmy posturings, the fake spirituality, the overt preciousness � she�d be the radiant Chantal Kreviazuk. The Canadian songstress is a tasty bite-size folkie who embraces theatrical trilling without ever being overwhelmed by her own drama or the lush, lacey atmospheres provided by Jay Joyce on Colour Moving And Still (Columbia). So maybe she does do the theme for that yucky show Providence. Tunes like "Blue" and "Souls" � with their pastoral near-dissonant melodicism, their scented pianos and her disquieting, passionate (yet still icy cool) vocal acrobatics � blast Kreviazuk to almost diva status.
