Shimmering guitars, beautifully rendered spectral arrangements, insinuating songs: Missy Roback’s CD debut, Just Like Breathing, is a startling collection of rainy-day ballads, mournful tales of emotional disconnection, and songs of graceful fragility. With ex-Rain Parader (and husband) Steven Roback in the producer’s chair, Just Like Breathing bleeds from gorgeous folk/psych like New Britain to the brittle, loping country twang of Blue-Eyed Baby. Though the record’s dreary mood does become a little overwhelming over the course of its 11 tracks, virtually every song sinks deep in your cranium before long, and Just Like Breathing becomes one of those records you just keep coming back to. Here’s hoping a follow-up comes sooner than later. — Luke Torn