HE was a jazz-piano prodigy, she is the daughter of Little Feat's Lowell George, and Greg Kurstin and Inara George have just made the summer evening soundtrack of a thousand hip hang-outs.
He calls their jazz-dappled, psychedelic pop debut "the sound of a 1960s futuristic musical set in Brazil", and if that suggests languorous fantasies drifting high on warm bossa-nova beats and chilled electronica, then Kurstin has it just right.
Infused with the sunshine of her native California but the knowing eye of Los Angeles, George's creamy, dreamy voice both coos and stings in Again & Again, the wittily dismissive I Hate Camera and the arch single ******* Boyfriend.
Astrud Gilberto and Burt Bacharach are invoked, but so too is the artful, designer cool and tantalising distance of Sarah Nixey and Black Box Recorder.
Pretty as a bird but with the sting of a bee.
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