Listening to Old Fashioned Gal, you may find that you’re certain you’ve heard these songs before. Even the titles—“Sparkle and Shine” and the title track—seem so familiar, so close. The idea that these songs, all of them written by Kat Edmonson, evoke another time and a distant place is never the question; but where that place is and when that time might possibly be are. Edmonson’s backstory is that she wrote these 11 songs as a “film in my head, a film not yet made”—or, alternately, a musical—and Old Fashioned Gal would indeed serve fittingly in that capacity. There is drama inherent in the ballad “A Voice,” with Edmonson declaring nakedly, “I’ve walked along this path alone/ I’ve seen my share of things/ And now it’s only I who knows what any of it means.” In “Please Consider Me,” with her trademark girlish delivery bathed in orchestral swirls, Edmonson offers what’s not a mere Paris travel guide but a more fragile emotion: “The loneliest sound that I’ve ever found, the clanging of the church at night/ It’s the sound of my heart calling you but sacré bleu, you’re not in sight!” The album-closing “Not My Time” is like some ethereal lost 1920s plea from the beyond, revealing heartbreak in oh-so-many ways amid the frolic, and “Goodbye Bruce” may be the most to-the-point get-lost tune ever: “Goodbye Bruce, gonna miss you/ You were such a lovely guy,” Edmonson sings over a fractured piano. That’s it. No need for elaboration. This is someone who knows what she wants to say.