Little Plastic Castle (25Th Anniversary Edition), Ani Difranco, CD

Digitally remastered and expanded edition. Twenty-five years later, Little Plastic Castle feels like a greatest hits collection. Her highest charting release on Billboard (peaking at #22) and containing her third Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance - Female ("Glass House"), Ani DiFranco's ninth studio album shows the Little Folksinger grappling with her independent career bubbling up into the mainstream - dissection of her fashion choices, a new expanded listenership encroaching on the die-hards, examination of what it means to sell out - encapsulated in singalongs so indelible that they're staples of her live set decades later. This 25th Anniversary Edition sees a new remaster by Heba Kadry, the addition of three bonus tracks mixed by Tchad Blake.