Light & Shade is the first album from London-based Magazine Gap. The five-piece band has an eclectic sound that combines folk, rock, pop, blues and jazz.

It makes for an unusual album. As the band says: "It shouldn't work, but it does."

There are folk-rock tracks shot through with jazz influences, and vice versa.

The folk-rock tracks are certainly the strongest while the vocals of singer-songwriter James Keen hold all the various elements together and fuse them into a distinct sound.

The album is lyrically strong and worth a listen.

7/10