Less Is More For Nastasia & White

For the past eight years, New York singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia has been making music at once emotive and understated. Delivered with a flat, talky indifference, lines about ghostly deaths and mundane domestic hopes are fused together into a sinister folk reality. In her latest effort, “You Follow Me” (Fat Cat), a collaboration with the Australian drummer Jim White, Ms. Nastasia eschews her familiar cellos and pianos, as well as the style of affected understatement, to deliver a rich collection of songs.