Tamalin are the McSherrys of Belfast - Tina with vocals and flute, John, low whistle and pipes, Joanne, fiddle, Paul, guitars; Kevin Dorris adds bazouki and bodhran. This is "pop-traditional" where the Corrs are decidedly not. Why? Tina's writing and vocals are involved and confident; musically the group do not pose with artefacts of music "oirishness"; they are all top-class players. Half the tracks are built on song whose mid-Atlantic angst clashes utterly with some quite brilliant, if modernist, musicianship: The Tempest with fiddle and pipes wonderfully constructed, escalated with flute, Reaping The Rye balancing syncopation in picked guitar and flute, rambling fiddle and pipes. Abundant talent and superb production, this is both for a style-eschewing crossover audience and the programmable-CD owner.