Let's Walk (2024)

"Madeleine Peyroux made her name with her second album, 2004’s "Careless Love". It consists almost completely of cover versions, delivered in a quiet, jazz-bluesey shuffle redolent of singers from the 1930s. She’s never flown as high again but has maintained a decent career, mostly mining similar sonic territory. Her new album, and first in six years, does not wander far from the path, but is all originals, written with regular collaborator Jon Herington. Despite being spiked with songs that have something to say, it’s a deliciously lazy summer listen. Whatever she’s singing about, Peyroux puts it through her stylistic filter and makes it palatable. What she makes is, in essence, easy listening, even on chilled blues cuts such as “Please Come On Inside” and the jazzy, jolly “Showman Dan”. But she does it with intelligence and wit, culturally aware and musically sweet-natured." (The Arts Desk)