Heart-on-the-sleeve poetics, songs about time’s passing and love’s mutability, yes it’s another young female guitar-toting singer-songwriter – but this time she’s one of the leading voices from the Australian scene. Hall handles piano too, crafts an individual line in catchy melody and has an expressive way with lyrics. Chugging cello leads the bass and percussion that is taking the former folkie to another level.

Norman Chalmers