Singer-songwriter Emi Meyer says she's never been one for covers — though she admits a one-off performance of Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks" went over really well with a South Korean audience recently.

Her latest album, "Monochrome," isn't a covers album per se, but a collection of jazz standards.

"My first album was based very strongly in jazz piano because I was foremost a pianist," Meyers says of her debut, 2007's "Curious Creature." "When (it) was released, everybody automatically said it was like a jazz album, but I didn't want to be pigeonholed into jazz because I really didn't know the legacy of jazz singers. I did everything I could to distance myself from jazz for the next several albums, but (this time) it just felt like the right time to go back to it."