Fast food

"The beautiful musical twisting during "Big Hands" proves Shah is more than just a wounded wordsmith, while producer and co-writer Ben Hiller returns to paint everything a Depeche Mode- or Elbow-styled shade of black. With dangerous come-ons like "Check your pulse when I speak," the album's shocking cover art is a suitable mix of beauty and blood, and even if the first cut is the deepest, second album Fast Food is still wicked sharp".

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"Shah often comes across as agitated and betrayed by love: in the film-noir rush of Stealing Cars, her voice yearning over clattery percussion; or the way Divided (about a long-distance relationship) and the strikingly sultry Big Hands erupt with melodies that run counter to each song's rhythm. But still she falls, helplessly, as if hypnotised, a motion she celebrates in Nothing Else to Do with such perfumed languor that it's hard not to fall in love back".

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