Melody's debut album `Worrisome Heart' introduced, in The Sunday Times' words: "a remarkable talent by any measure", together with songs of quiet, wistful poetry in arrangements this "ooze afterwards-hours sophistication". Yet the follow-up, for open in April 2009, marks a substantial jump forward. `My One And Only Thrill' is an intensely creative milestone, transcending genre distinctions of jazz and blues to propose a haunting personal musical statement this will appeal to all music-lovers. As together with her acclaimed exist shows she captures and holds her audience in the palm of her hand.
These eleven songs, covering a wide range of emotions, are all her own except for an irresistible, Brazilian get on Somewhere Over The Rainbow. It would get a heart of stone to remain unmoved by the poignant title track My One And Only Thrill. And when the album is finished (as Irving Berlin wrote truly) the song is over, but the Melody lingers on . . .