Maika Makovski's career is clearly on the rise: she has recently become an actress, and has released three albums in the last three years. These are indeed good times for the cosmopolitan indie rock songstress from Mallorca, and Thank You for the Boots -- by far the most luminous of her albums -- duly reflects her newfound confidence and optimism. The dark intensity of her early work, which earned her comparisons to PJ Harvey, is now toned down with Western and Gypsy influences, ballads, and a more central role for Makovski's piano.