‘Wow’ is one of Liz’s favourite expressions, and if you were going to use one word to describe this album ‘Wow’ would be the word. It’s an album which is as personal as it is dynamic, with vivid lyrical images of Frencham’s perspective on her life.

Today’s performers have to be talented all-rounders and Liz is proving to be one of these with her abilities to write impressive material, give the material impressive arrangements and then perform and record the material impressively using her natural musical ability.

The album of course features the subtle jazz vocal tones so characteristic of performances by Liz, layered in some cases and/or intertwined with bouzouki and bass arrangements that stand up in their own right. Ever able to wring expressive double bass accompaniments, Liz never manages to upstage the overall effect or allow the bass to feel awkward behind the very personal lyrics of each of the songs. It is a bright album, it has humour, sadness, frustration and triumph. I enjoyed every song, found it to be well recorded and mixed, perhaps the bass was a little duller on one or two of the tracks than I expected, a little too much sibilance on another and I wasn’t impressed with the title being deliberately left out of the artwork for the CD disk itself (too easy for a disc without a title to get separated from the cover and then totally lost in radio stations – a minor point)

I’ve played this CD over and over and perhaps it’s a little melancholy, but who am I to talk, this is a professional result and well worth purchasing.