Possessing a homespun familiarity, many of the songs on These Friends of Mine are characteristic of Rosie Thomas' other work, with her fragile falsetto lilting over sparse piano arrangements.

Rosie's music typically exists in the intangible realm of memory where childhood idylls meet adult expectations, and this album is largely no different. But These Friends of Mine finds Rosie more often channeling the concrete – the actual concrete, the streets and sidewalks of New York City.

'New York has always been this obsession of mine. So, that makes it all that much easier to write about. It's just such a huge theme, especially when you are actually living there like I was when we were recording,' Rosie says.

Songs like Much Farther To Go and New York City reflect Rosie's city-centric approach, where lightly strummed guitars meet whispered vocal harmonies imbued with a sense of plaintive longing.

• If This City Never Sleeps
• Why Waste More Time?
• The One I Love
• Much Farther To Go
• Paper Doll
• Kite Song
• Songbird
• All The Way To New York City
• Say Hello
• These Friends Of Mine