With a blast on her trusty harp and a shimmy in her wiggle-dress, Flo Jo is back with a second album of largely self-penned jazz and blues numbers, duly reaffirming her position as one of the more interesting and original singer songwriters currently working in the UK. The Paris-born chanteuse has long garnered a cult following for her sultry take on a mixed bag of influences from doo-wop and North African rai to the Gypsy stylings of Django Reinhardt – whose ‘Coucou’ is delivered here, refreshed, just like her percussive rendition of Ellington's ‘Caravan’. Backed by a clutch of crack musos on everything from pedal steel and snare drum to piano, maracas and castanets, Joelle brings a retro warmth to catchy songs with contemporary concerns: urban violence, night dangers, anti-Roma sentiment. All the more likeable for its old school, vintage mic, straight-to-stereo-analogue vibe, Stealing Flowers is a record to cherish.