The Canadian's singular brew of folk, pop, jazz, and indie grew from her love of some of music's fiercest women. You can hear the quixotic, playful lyrics of Amanda Palmer's “Leeds United” in Feist's “Mushaboom”; Fiona Apple's knack for crafting understated epics in the otherworldly balladry of “Fire in the Water”; and Kate Bush's penchant for the mystical and magical in “The Circle Married the Line.”