In October, The Odyssey profiled NYU student/singer-songwriter Kate Yeager. Now, the songstress has released her debut EP, "Your Girlfriend" after many months of hard work and intense creativity. It's all paid off, as the work is one of the best pieces of singer-songwriter material I've heard - not just in 2016 but over the years of exploring the genre. While only five tracks, "Your Girlfriend" is small but mighty and proves that some of the best things do come in petite packaging.

Throughout, Yeager has a smooth, sultry tone to her voice that immediately strikes up similarities to Norah Jones and Etta James (the latter of whom Yeager frequently covers, mixing verses of "At Last" in with her own material). She has a strong command of her voice and knows how to use it to play with listeners' emotions, crooning out the most sensitive of lyrics about love, life, and the rest against heavily-acoustic based tracks.

The EP opens with "Go, Go, Go," a track as stirring and forward moving as it title suggests. It's the quickest song on the EP, and also feels the most inspired by blues roots. It's mysterious and follows the long-standing tradition in country/blues music of telling stories with songs. Listeners will also be given their first taste of the powerful range of Yeager's voice, encouraging them to continue with the remaining tracks.

Next comes the titular track, and one of my personal favorites. Yeager's phrasing is spot on, each verse smooth, honest, and perfectly put as she croons about the girlfriend of the person she admires disapproving of her gazes (Yeager notably doesn't use pronouns in her work). Jazzy drums and a bouncing beat makes this song entirely worthy of Top 20 radio play in the same way "Don't Know Why" had.

Positioned in the middle is "Bird On a Wire," a soulful track where you might find yourself questioning if Yeager is really only a college sophomore. She sings about having had her fill of "tainted liars" in such a mature fashion, a song obviously showing she means business. Like all of the songs on the EP, this one also includes a perfectly orchestrated instrumental accompaniment where sections build and swell with the passion behind the lyrics.

The penultimate track, "You Got Me Dancing" will do exactly that as you find yourself tapping your toes to the swinging beat. It has a similar feel as "Your Girlfriend" with its quirky inclusion of electric-organ-like keys and Yeager's exploring the entirety of her range as she moves up and down scales throughout the verse. Yes, we want to dance with her, but we also hope we can continue singing as we do.

Finally, there's a heartbreaker to bring the EP to an emotion climax: "I Had You Once." An acoustic track, and arguably the strongest behind "Your Girlfriend," Yeager perfectly articulates how it feels to get "caught up in the bits and threads" of a person. The lyrics are true poetry, and I dare you not to feel tears in your eyes while listening to this bitter sweet love song. While the slow build from just a guitar to a fuller backing band is perfect (similar to the rest of the album) the raw quality of the story telling alone makes this a gem. Perhaps the couple here were "made for the wrong time," but this track is placed at the perfect time on the EP.

You can listen to a live session recording of "Your Girlfriend" Kate performed in the WNYU studios on Soundcloud.