Singing since her teens, Mancunian Josephine Oniyama has taken a while to get to her debut (she's now 30), and the album's 10 unusual songs all carry a measure of hard-won experience. The pain of betrayal informs I Think It Was Love, a sultry, jazzy ballad, while the upbeat A Freak A advises: "If you have a mask, put it on." A seasoned production team (Leo Abrahams, Jimmy Hogarth) supply arrangements that mix the retro orchestral pop of the title track with funkier flavours like Pepper Shaker, but at the centre of things is a voice of striking clarity, soulfulness and originality.