Album Review: Melanie De Biasio - No Deal

While jazz may be the obvious permutation of the Belgian chanteuse's second (not very) long player, No Deal revels in the art of understatement. Less is so powerfully more, with a clatteringly simple percussion section and a piano as delicate and frail as a raindrop providing as much rich texture as Biasio's own smoky vocals, which come and go as they please, never hogging the spotlight. Closer With All My Love lovingly pays tribute to the fragile production on Talk Talk's seminal Spirit Of Eden and is worthy of admission price alone.