There are other tracks from the album on her YouTube channel which have a more obvious jazz angle to her other songs, and that could well be a gap in the market. She had a single out last year, “She”, but this one has been given some more serious mainstream promotion.

Usually that just indicates that the act has a somewhat anticipated album due out in the first few months of the year (thus enabling the writer to look prescient to a mainstream audience by the simple expedient of flicking through a release schedule), and indeed, Mvula’s album is out this week.

Laura Mvula is a songwriter from Birmingham, who cropped up on several of those “ones to watch in 2013” lists back at Christmas. Sales on this must have been hugely frontloaded by fan purchases, since it was at 23 in the midweeks. It’s their 6th UK hit the biggest was “Ignorance”, which made number 14 in 2009. It’s alright, but I think they wrote better tunes when they were doing straight power pop. Well, that was non-specifically discontented. It’s not the busiest week, but there are a few interesting records here nonetheless.

Paramore album sales 2009