Sarah Cracknell, Sea Of Bees

Never one to rush things, Sarah Cracknell has taken her time over the follow up to her debut solo record - nearly two decades in fact!

Famously one-third of peerless British electronic pop band Saint Etienne, Sarah released Lipslide back in 1997. This year, she releases her second album – a gorgeous, understated collection of songs recorded in an Oxfordshire barn – and takes to the road for a series of low-key gigs that promise pastoral new music and maybe the odd reworked Etienne classic.