- Gabriella Cohen is suddenly a name on a lot of lips. After stepping out for a break from her studiolicious blues-rock band, Furrs, followed by a bunch of no-fi so-arty-as-to-be-just-about -unlistenable odes, in 2016 she's, kinda, splitting the difference.

Actually, her recent full-length -Full Closure and No Details- does a whole lot more: there's so many places it goes. The garage rock of Beaches morphs into the bizarre, blue-eyed soul of Yesterday; Dylan-esque folk-rock in Sever The Walls explodes into glam extravagance, later subsiding into gothic piano waltzes or the weirdly auto-tuned r'n'b rock of Feelin' Fine, which still leaves space for instrumental prog epics and, of course, the giant rock single that is Alien Anthem.

The whole lot was jammed out by Gabriella with her close conspirator Kate Dillon, in a Queensland shed with two microphones. It feels like it should've been a really rambling session where you throw stuff at a wall and see what sticks. Except everything stuck! It's all good and, although some of it sounds lo-fi enough to have been given life in a tin shed, the record is executed with such perfect poise it really does feel like Gabriella Cohen could've nailed anything she tried. Full Closure And No Details is a stellar achievement.

- Chris Cobcroft.