One of the highlights of Theresa Andersson’s 2004 album Shine was “Good Girl,” written by Alexandra Scott. Sadly, Scott left town after Hurricane Katrina and recently moved to Montreal, but she also released a new EP during SXSW and it, too, includes a Madonna cover. On Spring, Scott remakes “Ray of Light” has a hard, fuzzy stomp with Sam Craft of Glasgow chopping out sixteenth notes on the violin. Little on Spring is as heavy as that track, but the EP is uniformly impressive with songs that slowly swell and become grander as Scott and production partner Tim Sommer layer on additional parts.

On 2004’s Spyglass, Scott’s art riffed on the female singer/songwriter tradition, sometimes so subtly that it’s understandable if listeners thought she was yet another woman emptying her journals with acoustic guitar accompaniment. Here her expressions of longing and loss mirror the arrangements — eccentric, sometimes whimsical and almost always lovely.