11 Past The Hour (2021)

"The days of pigeonholing Imelda May as the Irish rockabilly singer are well and truly over. The Dubliners stylistic reinvention kick-started with her 2017 album Life Love Flesh Blood continues apace with her sixth album. Here, May sounds completely at ease with both the musician and the woman she has become, and that acceptance brings a soulfulness to songs such as Diamonds and swoonsome lullaby Solace. Many of these songs address the intoxicating rush of new love. The seductive title track and Cant Say nod to Dusty Springfield and Burt Bacharachs songbook, respectively. Others take a more determinedly independent line, such as Different Kinds of Love and Made to Love, an anthem for acceptance." (Irish Times)