A better, stronger, happier version of me. “I think the songs speak for themselves and tell the story and I hope that someone somewhere can relate to the songs and that it may help them through a difficult time.” Embellished with Richard Evans’ brass instrumentation, Changing Scenes is an intimate yet musically diverse collection. The album opens with Poet’s Truth, classy and jazzy pop where Jenny’s cool, calming croon duets with the Richard’s trumpet. The lovely acoustic balladry of Lonely Star sees Jenny’s crystal clear voice suddenly explode into a rollicking, optimistic pop song, while Silent Feelings with its undertow of brass and strings, and Jenny’s pleading vocal, sounds like a Radio 2 staple akin to Everything But The Girl at their most intimate. Freedom is a good example of Jenny’s knack of taking folk tale songwriting into personal and poppier territory. Like many of these songs it has a killer, radio-friendly chorus and lots of interesting harmonies which lodge in your brain. Lullaby is a wonderful song about motherhood. What can often be a mawkish subject is “honest and true” as its lyric suggests. Her three children, who are sung to in turn, should cherish this song. Interestingly, the one studio-sounding track the electro-blues of New Kind Of Man was recorded by Jenny alone at home.