Not just a big, bold début recording – though it is certainly that – but an invigorating exploration of what art song can look like in our own time. Sisco draws on poems about travels in Italy, the lonely hearts and ships-in-the-night of ‘missed connection’ ads on semi-defunct websites from the early days of the Internet, the caustic and often unhinged wit of today’s online reviews, the unfiltered naïveté of prayers written by children, and more. An album to brandish in the face of anyone that thinks classical song has nothing new to say and nowhere left to go.