It's been fun watching (and listening to) Daphne Lee Martin explore and refine her songwriting and style over the years. It's hugely important that she's such a fan of all sorts of quality music and artists because, while she certainly has her own voice and estimable skills as a tunesmith, Martin has appropriated little bits and characteristics from a variety of delicious sources.

Clearly, after her previous album, "Moxie," and on its thematic successor, the brand-new "Frost," Martin has comfortably arrived as a chanteuse who can channel the sophisticated melodies of k.d. lang or Annie Lennox - and isn't afraid to embrace aural textures ranging from old-school New Wave synths and plucked back-porch banjo to post-millennial Dixieland and frisky electronica.

Help Martin celebrate "Frost" at a CD release/spring tour kickoff party Saturday at New London's Oasis Pub. Mission O appears in support.

- RICK KOSTER

Daphne Lee Martin, 9 p.m. Saturday, Oasis Pub, 16 Bank St., New London; $5, $10 admission and digital download code, $15 admission and CD; (860) 447-3929, daphneleemartin.com.