The ‘Lockdown Years’ generated much intriguing music, not the least Tori Freestone and Alcyona Mick’s sumptuous Make One Little Room an Everywhere, reviewed elsewhere in these august pages. But nothing will prepare you for this gorgeous gallimaufry from Bottle and her band.

Bottle’s best known to jazzers for her vocals, bass and piano with Mike Westbrook’s Uncommon Orchestra and Kate Westbrook’s Granite band. And you can hear much of the Westbrooks’ sense of theatre in Bottle’s writing and arrangements. An imaginative use of instrumentation and happy amalgams of pop, folk and jazz informs Bottle’s writing, as it does the Westbrooks, while another Westbrook acolyte, Roz Harding, lights up the release which is handsomely packaged as a gatefold LP or trifold CD.

But make no mistake, this is very much Bottle’s vision, in coalition with Viv Goodwin-Darke. An unashamed lover of the Canterbury scene, Bottle (whose fluty voice has echoes of Robert Wyatt) mixes pastoral vistas with a sense of the absurd. Focussing on the rituals of domestic life (has doing the washing ever sounded sexier?), Bottle has conjured a concept album from home-spun rituals (making tea, hoovering) that is as charming as it is primal in chiming with some our most fundamental social and personal needs. Put on a brew and enjoy.