Giants

"For her second album, smoky-voiced Londoner Andreya Triana moves away from the smouldering soul of her Bonobo-produced debut, Lost Where I Belong (2010) into the pop-soul arena ... While enjoyable, Giants doesn't take the genre to new heights; it's easy-listening music with a sprinkling of bouncy, singalong tracks".

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"Giants - her belated second album following 2010's Lost Where I Belong - has plenty going for it. The melodies are uniformly strong - deeply conventional in their structure, but yanked slightly left-of-centre by the production's subtly contemporary touches ... The sterile quality of much of Giants' music means that these 12 songs rarely land an emotional body blow. The worst offender is Song For A Friend, a ballad on which Triana's voice becomes atypically tremulous during the chorus. It's an odd moment, and one that feels affected rather than genuine".

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