The second album from KT Tunstall's former guitarist is full of wistful and over sentimental love songs delivered in a sleepy soulful voice.
It follows the well received Everything You Are from 2007 and has the same warm and melodic characteristics.
What are essentially simple folky tunes are fleshed out by a slick band and soothing backing vocals.
The title song is a love letter to the city but the rest of the tunes are for absent or unattainable women.
Here, as you might expect, love burns, hurts and generally tears at the heartstrings.
"All I want is to fall into your arms" Sam croons on Sense Of Time and when he is subsequently tongue-tied in the presence of a Beauty In A Bar this has the unfortunate effect of taking him into James Blunt territory right down to the "she was with another man" line.
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This is a mellow yet shallow late night album to put on after the party guests have departed with only the 'it's a mean old world' electric blues stomp of Dead Dog Town likely to keep you from dozing off into dreamland.
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