Jon Fratelli’s second solo album, Bright Night Flowers, is coming less than a year after the release of the last Fratellis UK Number 5 album In Your Own Sweet Time. But more than that: Bright Night Flowers is brilliant. It features a selection of exquisite songs, largely written on piano that, in all the best ways, have something of the night about them. Soul-noir, country-gothic, The Big ‘O’ meets The Big Easy, the Heart Of Saturday Night meets the West End of Glasgow… call it what you will, Jon’s second solo “joint” is a masterpiece, and a refreshing change of pace from the last band album. It’s about making things interesting and fresh for himself, and for listeners. The songs on the last Fratellis album largely began on a laptop, in a briskly spontaneous fashion. With this second solo album, Jon found himself sitting at an instrument he hadn’t played in a while. “Almost all of these songs were written on the piano, which is fairly obvious on first listen. It seemed like the most natural counterpoint to the last album: to move away from fairly loud and colourful songs – some of which were built from mash ups of various ideas – to something gentle that rolled with a bit more fluidity.”