MARIA MCKEE Late December (2007 UK 12-track CD album which, after galloping off to a glamorously pop-y start with 'Late December', the warmly vulnerable vocal of 'A Good Heart' [penned when she was 18 and a huge hit for Feargal Sharkey] and the Bowie-esque Motown stomp of 'No Other Way to Love You', the album twists midway into new terrain with the now familiar, operatic 'collage-work' style which helped to redefine her as an artist on the momentous 'Life is Sweet' album once again rearing its ragged head in all its irreverent glory)