Lets get one thing out of the way: Basia Bulat doesnt live in a chteau. The property at the heart of the songwriters new studio album is at once her apartment, her jam-spaceand the inside of her head. Basias Palace is a place festooned with love and memory, bad wiring; its a paradise that comes alive in the wee hours of the night, at a time thats suited to video games and Leonard Cohen records, when you sit in all that richness, taking in all the mess we inherit.