The title of this marvellous second album from a young but accomplished band means "a second glance" and the album is definitely repays a second hearing.

The album is a blend of traditional styles from Scotland, Ireland and Shetland and it comes together with some truly wonderful playing on the clarsach, fiddle, whistle and pipes. You really get the feeling, listening to these people play, that they are enjoying themselves and their music and as a result its quite an uplifting experience to listen to it.

The tight instrumental playing is interspersed with some very accomplished singing by Julie Fowlis. Particularly notable, for me, is a song about unrequited love "A Mhairi bhoidheach", which is arranged and sung beautifully. Also impressive is the sheer dexterity of the rhythms and diction on display in "Puirt a beul".

There is only one track on the album that, for me, doesn't quite come together - "Tiarna Mhaigh Eo", a traditional Irish song on which Julie Fowlis is joined by a guest Irish singer. You can understand what they were trying to do with this arrangement, but somehow the voices just don't gel. That said, one only notices that because of the extremely high standard of the rest of the album.

On the whole the music is first rate - I bet these guys are amazing live!

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