The Waifs - Sun Dirt Water

Sun Dirt Water is an album born of time and distance. The geographic space between singer-songwriters Donna Simpson, Vikki Thorn and Josh Cunningham, and the long hiatus since the last studio album of The Waifs, Up All Night, created a kind of vacuum that these new songs could hardly wait to fill.

It's Vikki who sets the bar with the title track. Sun Dirt Water is a worldly, seductive groove that meanders between styles with insouciant authority slinky jazz, elegant country, smoky blues and effortlessly nails what Josh calls 'our finest recorded moment to date.'

The eerie introspection of Love Let Me Down, the gleeful, organ-fuelled pop of Stay, the electric riff rock of No Such Thing As Goodbye and the old-time ukulele thrum of Sentimental are worlds apart stylistically, but they spring from the same well of timeless roots influences.

• Pony
• Sundirtwater
• Vermillion
• How Many Miles
• Without You
• Sad Sailor Song
• Get Me Some
• Eternity
• Sweetest Dream
• Goodbye
• Stay
• Love Let Me Down
• Feeling Sentimental