Maisie Peters - Florescence

Maisie Peters's first two albums tracked the standard British-pop fast-rise. 'You Signed Up For This' introduced a particular kind of literary storyteller; 'The Good Witch' refined her into a chart bursting artist with a brand built on pettiness, scorn and the constructive use of grudges. 'Florescence' - recorded mostly in Nashville, co-produced by Peters herself for the first time - is the album where she has decided to be a different kind of artist altogether.

The previous record's revenge-energy posture has been retired. 'Audrey Hepburn' arrives as a deliberate re-grounding move, with fingerpicked acoustic guitar, voice and song carrying everything else. 'Say My Name In Your Sleep' brings Marcus Mumford in to co-write, co-produce and sing, with the result acting as a folk-Gothic loosely traced through Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca'. 'Kingmaker' brought back Julia Michaels (a 'You Signed Up For This' co-writer) for a duet and used Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall' as its lyrical conceit. This is something altogether more layered.

The other change is Peters herself. She seems less a simple artist and more an author, which, on a third album from a writer whose strongest asset has always been her songs, reframes the project into something with even more heart and soul. 'Florescence' is perhaps the first record where the room truly belongs to her. It's the first Maisie Peters album where she has visibly decided what kind of artist she wants to be, and stopped reacting to the kind she was previously assumed.