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Lhasa's story is the oft-told one of girl grows up in the US as an outsider with a Mexican dad, ends up in French-speaking Quebec, produces offbeat surprise hit album, burns out, escapes, joins the circus, tours Europe, falls in love, moves to Marseilles and completes brilliant and idiosyncratic follow up album.

"That's what inspires each of the songs on the album. The mysterious force that doesn't let us box ourselves in, that compels us to keep changing. The road is alive, we can't freeze or stop it. And we know we can't."
Lhasa

So the music, well if you haven't heard her before either from her debut or her collaboration with the Tindersticks, her accordion-rich music offers a flavour of Piaf through a voice more like Bjork's. She sings in Spanish, French and her, now accented, English.

La Frontera is a brassy Mexican themed soundtrack to an imaginary film in her head. This time it is the Mexican's tale as he enters the US rather than the other way around. La Confession is a typically bittersweet meditation on the compromised nature of love.

But it is not all unsettling tales of misplaced love. On Small Song, for example, she creates a playful, teasing lullaby but we are soon back to more familiar territory on Para el Fin del Mundo o el AÒo Nuevo, "MaÒana te mato/MaÒana te libro/Estoy adelante ya no/ya no tengo miedo. Tomorrow I kill you/Tomorrow I free you/I'm up ahead/I'm no longer afraid."

Living Road is a dark and painfully revealing album blurring fiction and autobiography in a way that draws you into Lhasa's curious world but keeps you at arm's length as you don't know what is real and what is not.

Tracks:
Con Toda Palabra
La Maree Haute
Anywhere On This Road
Abro La Ventana
J'Arrive A La Ville
La Frontera
La Confession
Small Song
My Name
Pa'Llegar A Tu Lado
Para El Fin Del Mundo O El Ano Nuevo
Soon This Space Will Be Too Small