Album Review: Jodi Phillis - Sonum Vitae

The improvised work chronicling your life, partly designed as therapy, could be the kind of thing almost certain to disappear up its own fundament of pretentiousness. But Jodi Phillis – she of The Clouds, if you need a reference point – has a pop sense that comes through, even if it's started by merely pressing the record button and letting things happen. Snatches of nursery rhyme tick through Infancy, while Adolescence has girl-group doo-wop just breezing in from the ether. Apparently, this made JPhillis understand herself a bit better, and may well do the same for you.