This piano trio floats on the wide interface between jazz and classical music, allowing the piano to fall fully into its emotive power, but without guile. It is a straightforward recording, elevated most when Kruttli is seemingly able to play in perfect unison with her thoughts.

Throughout, the melancholic passages glow with a freshness and genuinely touching moments, as in ‘Buried Giant’, and use clever whispers of melody, and chords that imagine stirring vignettes. Here every sound has a balletic quality, so that even when angry or tense there is an elegant aesthetic.

This album needs time (how appropriate), because there's no rushing Marie Kruttli. There is little attempt to impress or make the ‘right’ moves, it is as if she is utterly enveloped in her thoughts and prudently goes into them, leading the trio through dark caverns beneath her surface. The patience and sensitivity of Lukas Traxel on double bass and Jonathan Barber on drums are humbling. Traxel's timing, holding back a note for split second, gives a warm, calm swing that offsets the piano's fragility, while the sensuous drum style and restrained cymbals of Barber offer inviting nuances.

The title track is a much-needed energetic pop tune but is an equally engaging journey as the contemplative pieces such as, ‘I Hate to be Taken as a Stupid Person’. This title says much about the whole album, it's direct, connects to people's experience and is eye-catching. The dreamy start of the track twists into dark, discordant gulleys before opening out into divine waterfalls of notes and spaces. Here Barber and Traxel's intuitive touches match Kruttli's emotional quota as she drives into her frustrations, revealingly. They say it as it is, moment by moment.

In some tracks the lingering style loses its thrust and direction, however, the disarming simplicity of a piano trio is celebrated, and it's an album with both heart and intrigue.