Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Four tracks in to her debut album, Natalie McCool asks in an intense and mesmerizing way, “Have you ever played with fire?” The answer may very possibly be yes, human nature is all about reaching for the unattainable and the desirable, no matter the cost to our soul and sanity. However Natalie McCool doesn’t just play with the fire, she supplies it, stokes the furnace till it gets so hot it positively blows and all the while she does it with every ounce of her being throughout this astonishingly superb album.