Paloma Faith - Fall to Grace
Seeing Faith in her numerous TV appearances since the release of 2009's Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? was a bit of a culture shock. That a woman who injects so much tragedy and romance into her lyrics, wistful melancholy into her melodies and humility into her vocal performance could come across as she did in her Never Mind the Buzzcocks guest slots was quite surreal. It cemented her, however, as one of the nation's true eccentrics and her ditsy, zany sense of humour - much like Adele's talking voice - rather covers the best of both worlds (captivating performance and enigmatic chat show slots). Her 2009 breakthrough was a little slow for me. Whilst she definitely enjoyed poppier moments and hits with Stone Cold Sober and Upside Down for me the real masterstroke of the album was the other single, New York . A fantastically poignant and wrought vocal, it was one of the year's best-written and most beautiful tracks for me. Here Faith gets a coup...