The lyrics on it are snappy, straightforward and hard to not like. This is evident on ‘Life is Short’ and ‘I Can’t Make Me’, giving a feeling of being street-wise and grown-up. The otherwise soppy content of ‘I Can’t Make Me’ is given an urban sense with a jazzy, salsa-style piano and rhythm. In other places, ‘Flutterby’ exudes innocence like in ‘Drift On’ basically a gentle, Norah Jones-like ballad. With just a guitar and vocals, the song is about lazing about and swimming in a secluded river and letting the tide take her away – there is a touch of a childhood memory to it.

Songs are very simple and arrangements are well done. The start of ‘Can You See the Lights?’ sounds like the Rolling Stones and everything’s upbeat in this world. But then, in this song and in Busy, the contradictions of the album are summed up. ‘Busy’ is a strange song that doesn’t seem to know how to make up it’s mind. One moment the atmosphere is sparkling, happy; the next unsure, melancholy. There’s the balancing between innocence and experience as well which makes for a well-rounded album.

However, things aren’t completely perfect on this album. Butterfly can end up sounding hippy-like or veering into Avril Lavigne territory. ‘A Beautiful Book’ is frustrating as it has so much potential but it just becomes too happy clappy and twee for it’s own good, with non-human things suddenly gaining the human qualities of hopes and dreams. On, ‘I Can’t Make Me’ she goes a bit Avril on us and ‘Complicated’-earnest which sort of spoils an otherwise good song. For the most part though, this is an accomplished album that has it’s own style.

David Adair