I think they'll really miss Belinda's piano -- it was what made a lot of their arrangements musically interesting. I've got both the CDs, although I listen to The Bairns more regularly -- a bit darker, and (in my opinion at least) a more mature set of performances.

I've seen them live a couple of times, and they do seem more prepared to "let rip" vocally when on stage. Or perhaps it was a conscious decision to make the voices a bit more winsome & breathy in the studio production. There's no denying they do have "young" voices, but then they're young lasses, and I look foward to hearing them mature both musically & stylistically. They were certainly a real "find" for me last year.

(This from a man who spends most of the time listening to Peter Bellamy, Walter Pardon & The Watersons -- so hardly a follower of the more 'easy listening' camp ;-))