Exclusive: We bring you the new album from Sally Seltmann - formerly New Buffalo - as our feature album this week.

When we first heard 'Harmony to my Heartbet', the first single and lead track from Seltmann's first album under her own name, we said:

"Gone are some of the more loop-based ideas bubbling underneath previous New Buffalo songs and in its place a more fully-realised, Phil-Spector-reverb-on-the-drums-style widescreen sound. And while it's another uplifting, dreamy tune from Seltmann, as always it's her distinctive voice that tells the story; an ever present unsurity in her lilt that translates as something both detached and intimate, confessional and blasé, strong but humble."

On first listen to Heart That's Pounding (due out April 9th) that same overlook can be applied to much of the album; a fuzzily positive set that meanders through classic pop structures, sun-tinged, nursery rhyme melodies and relationship outlines. On the gentle 'Book Song', Seltmann coos over a string ensemble: "Rock n' Roll / I never aimed to own the stage / I'd rather write a book with characters whose lives unfold / and bring you coffee in the morning when outside it's cold". Despite the sentimentality dripping through Seltmann's lyrics, unlike many so-called 'confessional' singers playing the pop game, Seltmann's tales always seemed to be aimed at herself; an inner dialogue writ large. As opposed to coy mannerisms and shared tales of woe. When she sings "I just wanna be happy" at the end of 'Happy', or describes her hope that the dinner party's going well in 'The Truth', it scans as a reminder to herself. Rather than a statement to the listener. And with this we're drawn in ever closer.

Listen to Heart That's Pounding in full over there in the right hand column on our Radio Player.

Heart That's Pounding is out April 9th via Shock.