By 7:30

EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Vonda's first collaboration with producer Mitchell Froom from 1999 is chock full of creative production elements and fantastic songs such as the title track and 'This Is Crazy Now.' Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) duets on the remake of 'Baby, Don't You Break My Heart Slow.' "Shepard's the classic singer/songwriter type; her soul-baring confessionals are tempered by flashes of wit and whimsy along with a hook or two and often bittersweet underpinnings." Darryl Morden, The Hollywood Reporter.

AMAZON
Vonda Shepard was a veteran singer/songwriter with spotty success behind her when she caught a break as the musical voice of Ally McBeal. The audience that connected with that popular TV drama quickly took Shepard's music to heart, making a huge success of the 1998 soundtrack album. Now Shepard returns with her fifth disc. Coproduced by Mitchell Froom in a radio-ready style at odds with his experimentation with the likes of Suzanne Vega and Latin Playboys, By 7:30 will surely please those who are primed for its earnest cracked romanticism. Others--the type of listener, for instance, who's less than thrilled to note a guest appearance by Indigo Girl Emily Saliers--are likely to find its overwrought, clichéd sentiments irritating at best. --Rickey Wright.