Epiphany in Brooklyn

Epiphany in Brooklyn is singer-songwriter Brenda Kahn's second full-length album, released in 1992. Background "I Don't Sleep, I Drink Coffee Instead," the first track on the album, was the song that helped Kahn land her major label deal. Critical reception Trouser Press called Epiphany in Brooklyn "an album so melodramatically oversung that Kahn could be auditioning for the Ethel Merman part in some Broadway-does-folksingers production." The Washington Post called the album "livelier and more tuneful than much neo-folk." The News & Record called it "full of spiky energy and closely observed vignettes." Ann Powers, of The New York Times, wrote: "Her songs, many of which are featured on her new album, Epiphany in Brooklyn, focused on the small world of post-modern slackers, with the kinds of lyrics that college students copy into notebooks because they so accurately describe their confused, wishful lives."