This second album from singer, pianist and songwriter Joe Stilgoe presents an unbelievably rich musical feast that's full of surprises. Album opener ‘Let's Begin’ is a case in point, suddenly veering off from its vertiginous swing feel into a gorgeous Earth, Wind & Fire groove. The title track from Stilgoe's debut album, ‘I Like This One’, gets a gloriously widescreen makeover. Then, following the brassy exuberance of ‘We Should Kiss’ – which I'm sure we'll be hearing on a movie soundtrack in the future – Stilgoe channels George Benson in the scat/vocal middle section of ‘Now Wasn't That Fun?’.

Based on a line uttered by Jack Lemmon's character Bud in The Apartment, ‘(That's The Way It Crumbles) Cookie-Wise’ provides the album's wonderful balladic centrepiece with a typically lovely middle eight. After the beautiful string arrangement of ‘The Chestnut Tree’, the supremely catchy ‘So Much To Learn’, the cricketing analogies of ‘Can't Catch Me Out’ and the homage to Louis Blériot ‘Time To Fly’, the piano-less ‘To Be Decided’ dials down the big textures and hits home with gently chugging guitar and bass. A piano-vocal interpretation of ‘Waterloo Sunset’, the sole cover, rounds off a superb album.