I’ve never heard the two records Alina Simone has made of her own songs, but I’ll sure seek them out after hearing the new Everyone is Crying Out to Me, Beware. The Ukrainian-born, U.S. -bred singer has recorded nine songs by Siberian punk-folk cult hero Yanka Dyagileva, who drowned in 1991 at age 24; I’ve never heard the original versions of this material either, but Simone’s interpretations are wonderfully dark and turbulent. though her breathy, slightly husky voice is vaguely like Chan Marshall’s, she inhabits these intimate, brooding melodies with a smoldering intensity all her own. The lean, craggy instrumentation — mostly guitar, with some drums, trumpet and cello — brings out the warmth and humanity in her singing as she fights her way through its bleakness.