Looking like she's just stepped out of the pages of The Great Gatsby, this debut album from US vocalist Hailey Tuck scores highly for its imaginative reworkings of songs by Pulp (‘Underwear’), The Kinks (‘Alcohol’), Joni Mitchell (‘Cactus Tree’), the Paul McCartney title-track and more. Recorded at LA's Sunset Sound Studios, if the soundworld of the Leonard Cohen-penned album opener ‘That Don't Make It Junk’ sounds like it could have been an outtake from Madeleine Peyroux's Careless Love, that's because Junk is produced by none other than the brilliant Larry Klein (Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, Madeleine Peyroux et al). Tuck, who followed Peyroux's lead by relocating to Paris as a teenager, also shares some of the same timbral quality and less-is-more aesthetic. Taking their place among the covers are two fine Tuck originals, the doleful ‘Last in Line’, in which the understated accompaniment and sense of space around the vocal has Klein's stylistic fingerprints all over it, plus ‘My Chemical Life’, which can best be described as an otherworldly mash-up of Donald Fagen and Stacey Kent.