Fauness speaks of her singular pop as if it were a patchwork quilt crafted from an array of different fabrics: velvet anxieties, silky satin dreams, memories of acid-washed denim. While her melodies and lyrics grab attention with their guitar-laced immediacy, there is a deceptive complexity behind the raw emotion. As she concedes, “I’m a hybrid person with many sides.” Her latest EP serves as both summit and statement, polishing her eclectically confessional songraft into 12 dazzling minutes. Named after the second section of Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy’s tragic late 19th century odyssey about a young woman caught between worlds, Maiden No More is wilful and wild-hearted, loyal to its own emancipatory muse. Each song is co-produced by Jam City.