Bic Runga - Beautiful Collision

It's taken me this long to get around to Beautiful Collision because I always felt that Drive was so perfect on its own terms that I simply didn't need another Bic Runga album. Listening to it, was initially a bit sceptical due to the fuller sound of the record (not necessarily a virtue with this kind of music), but have been won over by those so-charming vocals, the underlying simplicity of the arrangements and the goshdarned sweetness of it all. For mine, it can't touch Drive, but Beautiful Collision has a pleasing grace of its own.