Elle Scott's album "Stories from the Treehouse" includes several gems that are ambitious and ripe with taut sensitive vocal delivery and lyrical meaning. One such song, "Come Back", combines the best aspects of song structure with an arrangement that reminds us of a more indulgent musical philosophy of the 70's as the center of the song pays more than the usual pop time to instrumental magic. The hook, "I love to play", with it's layered harmonic suspended notes is memorable and lush. Scott's genre is an emotional and instrumentally interesting acoustic pop with a cross-over country taste. In "Everything", she nurtures an introduction that moves into another fine representation of vocal performance and writing - however the refreshing consistency of the record is in the instrumental choices. "Everything" combines acoustic piano, steel Spanish guitar, harmonics, a tapestry of percussion and subtle drums. Scott takes a six minute trip for the listener to a time a year ago when she 'was in between the hatred and the love' and then a year from now when she 'will still be me' in the song "Summertime". Strat guitar work is terrific as it accentuates the soul of the song. We are again reminded of the production of Elton John's famous side 2 of Captain Fantastic - the anthem moving musical indulgence of a medium tempoed heart-felt song. Scott's voice is a clear and crisp strong pop/country deliverer. Hovering between soprano and alto she animates the lyrics as a story-teller while applying a child-like enthusiasm. This quality comes through most of the record, but in particularly in "Yesterday". The songs here are strong, and we can see Scott playing them acoustically in a coffee shop - however, considering that venue is saturated with performances of the idiom, we would instead hope that Scott pursues her live career with the full band sound she has crafted so beautifully as songs and musical colors. Great record.