Quite possibly the photo negative of a difficult second album, Twentytwo in Blue features Sunflower Bean opening up and luxuriating in their prodigious talent. Key to its success is the positioning of Julia Cumming. She’s front and centre here, taking the vast majority of lead vocals and dusting the band’s imaginative dream-rock with an unmissable star quality. She’s light and mesmeric on the album’s poppier moments (“I Was a Fool”, “Twentytwo”) and an impassioned presence when the trio dart confidently towards punky, political edges (“Crisis Fest”, “Puppet Strings”).