The fourth album for Amos Lee is a tasteful mix of moody ballads and seductive timbres. Mission Bell is quite a spiritual album; it conjures images of a person’s search for redemption. Yet there is a good balance of soul, gospel and folk, matched with warm guitars and horns. Lucinda Williams and Willie Nelson perform a duet with Lee, but he honestly doesn’t need their help – his voice is infectious enough. A really good album.

Alice Bisits is from Readings Hawthorn.