It is no secret Lou Rhodes and Andy Barlow - formerly of electronica outfit Lamb - were at each other's throats for much of the time during their creative partnership.

Since their split, they've remained friends, but Lou admits going it alone is liberating and it's a "luxury not to have to argue."

Her solo debut, Beloved One, released on her own label Infinite Bloom, is a far truer representation of what she's really about.

"There's a lot of love between Andy and me but we're very different people and we want different things out of life and music,"she says.

"For me, songs have always been key. I like simplicity whereas Andy is complex in his arrangements. He loves technology and what it can do. I was ready to make something simple, authentic and honest."

The result is a collection of heartfelt, acoustic folk songs featuring hand drum percussion, Chinese violins and Tuvan guitars. It's a reflection of her own journey of self-discovery: Breaking up with her husband and abandoning Lamb and London for a hippy commune in Surrey, where she is now based with her two children. As such, some may find the lyrics uncomfortably earnest but if you can give up cynicism, it's a beautiful, close-up self-portrait.

"I wrote the album with my heart wide open,"says Lou. "When the time came for it to be released, I thought, 'Oh, s***! Now it's got to be played.'"

So far the critics have been impressed, and it was chosen as Record Of The Month by DJ magazine. "I think it went to people's hearts,"says Lou. "They seem to get it. It draws from the folk tradition I've grown up in (Lou's mother was a folk singer) but I feel it has a post-dance sensibility in the percussion and rhythm, which brings it up-to-date.

"There's a Sufist feeling to it, an element of that passionate devotion, where romantic love crosses over into the spiritual.

"We all have those moments where everything is shining and it feels like things couldn't get any better than right now. I want my songs to be played in those moments."

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