Any discussion of this Irish troubadour's career trajectory starts inevitably with his devastatingly tender turn on Steve Winwood cover “Higher Love”, taken from his debut album Early In the Morning, a winsome record pitched around McMorrow's enthralling guitar-folk. But it's with his second and third offerings that the soul of the man is revealed—a far funkier proposition than you might expect. As the languorous, honeyed “Cavalier” and sparse beats and dizzying vocal heights of “Red Dust” demonstrate, McMorrow is a master of minimalism, whether channelling acoustic romanticism or stark R&B.