Scaling back to essentials does not mean giving anything up - as long as what is left or even laid bare is what truly matters. ME AND MY DRUMMER have really pushed this act of reduction. It's hardly a band you are watching here, it's two confidants in close contact. Ever-changingly, they are a loving couple, they separate, they circle each other in the boxing ring and in the ballroom. Here's an incredible voice, singing for her dear life, making requests and demands, challenging you, dreaming and floating on a dense musical ride, picking up speed and gaining momentum. This voice forms a tender, intimate, immediate alliance with a set of instruments reduced to its core. Almost brutally close, they create an intoxicating undertow - pristine, refined, mesmerizing, light-footed - that after all really just wants to play with everything and itself.