Krystle Warren  likes to tell her interviewers about the long years spent busking on the streets of New York and Paris, France, but quite why this talented young lady - all the way from Kansas City - spent so long on the pavements and sidewalks of those romantic cites is beyond me, unless she wanted a ‘true jazz’ back story. Whatever the reason she’s taken her time getting as far as this album but now she’s here, she’s hot to trot. Blitzing Jools Holland’s TV show  late last year and with Rufas Wainwright and KD Lang  (literally) singing her praises this is no ordinary voice or singer.

Warrens voice is an extraordinary instrument nurtured and exercised by years on the kerbs of urban performance, she sounds just like Nina, but this time for real, softly caressing one moment, climbing with irrespirable demanding strength the next. She’s got touches of Buckleys vocal reach, Joni’s sweetness and Simones intensity but all plaited together to give her her own wholly original style, voice and music and that’s unusual enough these days without her being so good too!

Her songs and the instruments in them are the prefect match. She slipped her guitars thought the glass wall of country, stopping them just in time for a blue grass moment or two, then off again, via jazz and soul back into her upfront style which she is possibly going to make all her own. She’s both terribly familiar and unpredictable charming at the same time and this (her first) CD quickly became the most played CD off my wobbly stack.  

Have a creamy taster of this lady’s talent here:

Her lyrics are quick, clever and tinged with untypical romance and the pain of love and also funny, a good meaty combo is ever there was one. Some of her songs are edgy and urban others more languid and seductively laid back.  Warren in her acoustic mode in exceptional fine tuned and with her backing band behind her - The Faculty -  has been getting rave reviews from across the country and indeed the  world.

She’s new, but old, her songs are gender-non-specific and she’s also very beautiful and family, but what’s that got to do with it ladies? KD Lang raves over her, and I suspect many other ladies are going to too. Krystel better get use to the adoration cause she’s not in Kansas city anymore.  She’s touring at the moment so put down your mouse and go now, to find out where, get in the car, go see her, even if it’s in the Shetlands.  Now.

‘Circles’ her début CD out now:  £11.99 from HMV here:

Or from iTunes uk.