Jess Mills - For My Sins

For her latest effort, Mills takes a more melodic direction. She previously followed up the euphoric ‘Live For What I’d Die For’ with the electronic ‘Pixelated People’ and now she brings us ‘For My Sins’, which is closer to something appropriate to a Sunday church service. In the lyrics of her other releases she has tended to focus on religious themes, and ‘For My Sins’ isn’t any different. In the chorus she soothes out “For my sins I’m here without you / Don’t you know my heart is breaking too / No sympathy to deliver / I’m hurting myself so no one’s a winner.” Dark and mournful for an assumed love lost, perhaps not quite a favourite for early on a Sunday morning.

She’s expanded her sound over each of her four singles to date, so its a complete guess as to how her debut album ‘Twist Of Fate’ will sound, but this release will throw a spanner in the works of anyone expecting a standard indie electronica record. The after effects of touring with Leftfield and Katy B have seemingly worn off, and now the influence of Emeli Sandé is starting to pour through onto her work, and while anyone who has followed her releases up until now might be surprised by the different sound, she’s showcasing a great voice that would be addictive if she could fine tune the lyrics.