London-based singer and pianist Fiona Ross has a way with a hook and a voice whose sweetness belies its impressive range. She also knows how to craft an album. The follow-up to last year's self-released, all-acoustic 7 Songs in 7 Days, Thoughts, Conversations and To Do Lists is a wildly varied and thematically strong collection of tunes presented in a triptych of, well, thoughts, conversations and to-do lists, buoyed by stylish arrangements and a tight core band of musicians on everything from flute and guitar to trumpet and sax.

Lyrics are conversational, personal, sometimes raw but always eminently relatable; tracks called things like ‘When You Walked in the Room’ and ‘When Will You Leave My Mind’ nail the internal dialogue piqued by love and heartbreak; respectively weaving in interlaced horns and a fluent trumpet solo from Dave Boa, and jazz fusion with driving percussion and Gibbi Bettini's bossa guitar.

Brass features strongly: Loren Hignall's alto sax flavours but never overwhelms ‘The Small Things', a catchy jazz-standard-a-like, before going full free jazz on ‘A Single Source of Truth'. Ross’ diverse influences, and her dexterity, are much in evidence. There are ballads here, and Latin jazz and ragtime, and passages where Ross gets to rock out. An album of stories, delivered with heart.