Released on her own Kristalyn Records label, Hard Rain brings together 11 classic songs from the Dylan/Cohen songbooks. Investing everything she sings with telling insight, Jungr's complete affinity with the material lends the collection a galvanising power. As you might expect from these songwriters, there are lyrical jewels aplenty, a particular favourite being the opening line of Cohen's ‘First We Take Manhattan’ (“They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom, for trying to change the system from within”). Adding immeasurably to the album's dramatic strength are the surprising congruencies that the track list brings about – following Cohen's ‘Manhattan’ we hear Dylan's trenchantly pacifistic ‘Masters of War’, first recorded by him over 50 years ago yet sadly as relevant as ever. You couldn't imagine two more compatible songs. The ear-catching arrangements are by Jungr and her long-standing musical collaborator Simon Wallace, whose apposite piano accompaniment is one of the album's constant delights.