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Deleted Scenes From Cutting Room Floor are by no means a collection of left over parts. With luscious and firm vocals from this curvaceous brunette hailing from Amsterdam, she is probably one of the finest and cleanest exports the country has produced in sometime.

The album is very much RnB with swing and jazz tones but a lot of her songs are quite similar sounding to huge popular artists who are around today. Some tracks remind me of Mary J. Blige and then Katy B on Absolutely Me along with the occasional trip hop vinyl scratches which you’d find on a Morcheeba album. One or two of the Spice Girls solo releases sound like Riviera Life as well but please do not be put of by that, it is Summer sun. This is a darling of a woman who has so much diversity on this album it is a pleasure. With classic sounding band works of trombones, trumpets, pianos and strings on one track then the next you have, soulful vocal melodies which remind me of Blackstreet’s No Diggity and then randomly a classic distorted guitar swinging out a riff in-between verses.

This lady has reinvigorated The Cotton Club and brought it up to date with the fullest respect. You Don’t Love Me has the same core fabric of Cab Calloway but without the slightly comedic aspect that we may look upon it.

One of the stand-out tracks for me would have to be Back It Up – below – which is one of those records which you subconsciously start foot-tapping to. In fact, you do that with every track on this exquisite album.

With the recent onslaught onto these shores of the Monsters Ball from Lady Gaga and her brigade, she has incorporated a good few jazz pieces into her show and it underlines a lot of her work. Her doing this begins the education into a genre that a few of them would never think to investigate. I am hoping that as well as the fans Caro Emerald gathers through her work on her own, I hope that she manages to educate some of the younger “Monsters” as well.

Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor by Caro Emerald is released by Grandmono Records and is out now.