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Now, at the age of 46, Alison Moyet has finally got it right. The Turn is an album of songs (co-written with her guitarist Pete Glenister) which, for the first time since she fled Yazoo in 1983, are worthy of her fabulously expressive voice.

Always engagingly earthy (if downing a whopping cognac to steel herself for All Cried Out, the sole Eighties solo hit aired, counts; and it surely does), Moyet's ease with her new material allowed her to flit from jokey Essex woman between songs to fearsome diva within them and enable her emboldened voice to blossom.

One More Time, owed equally enticing debts to The Associates' Party Fears Two and Andrew Lloyd Webber, and she hurled herself into Melanie's long-lost Momma Momma with the sort of believable abandon she's often threatened but never delivered.

The kitchen sink dramas The Sharpest Corner (Hollow) and Can't Say It Like I Mean It may spend the rest of 2007 battling for career highlight status.

At the very end, she offered Yazoo's sterling Don't Go and, more spine-tingling still, a heartstoppingly beautiful Only You, accompanied by piano and string quartet. Finally, the past began to look as bright as the future.

Alison Moyet plays The Pigalle Club tonight (020 7287 3834).

Alison Moyet
Pigalle
Piccadilly, W1J 9HN