“Horsepower For The Streets” is Jonathan Jeremiah’s fifth album, his second for PIAS, a label which feels like a good home for a soulful singer. Much of the new album was written in Saint-Pierre-De-Côle, the countryside beyond Bordeaux, during breaks in Jeremiah’s first tour of France. The album was recorded in Bethlehemkerk, a renovated monumental church in Amsterdam Noord, with Amsterdam Sinfonietta, a 20-piece string orchestra.

The London based Brit’s first, acclaimed album – “A Solitary Man”, described by the BBC as “elegant and soulful, a luscious artefact of 1970s songwriting class” – was released in 2011. It earned gold status in Holland, where it charted at No.3, and also reached No. 11 in Germany and Belgium.

Very often Jeremiah is compared to iconic artists like Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg and Terry Callier. The clarity of his performance draws the listener into the landscape he paints in such detail, while at the same time leaving much to the imagination.