HAVING hung up their wimple and loin cloth, at least for now, the nation’s favourite Maria and Joseph deliver second solo albums. Both sets are rather good, certainly in their genre, and a vast improvement on the so-so debuts.

The choice of material is more considered, suggesting artists with direction and purpose. Lee Mead contributes his own Breathe You Out, and covers Ryan Adam’s fabulous When The Stars Go Blue, both wise choices. Meanwhile, Connie covers Secret Love and When She Loved Me from Toy Story 2, which will undoubtedly raise an eye brow or two.

The lucky girl also gets first stab at the reworked First Impressions Count, a hither unrecorded song from the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice songbook, which will make her the envy of her contemporaries.