Sometimes, music doesn’t have to scream that it is unique and gorgeous to be noticed as so. Such is the case with My Last Mistake. Although the name may be misleading, My Last Mistake is a one-woman show for the most part, powered by the smooth voice and guitar strummings of the United Kingdom’s Leah Newcombe (Richard Norton is credited with second guitar work).

Newcombe’s Sad, Beautiful Day EP might be taken as typical girl music if it wasn’t so darn earthy. Everything’s out there on the songs, from the earnestly sorrowful “The Story of Us” to the pining longing of “Wish I Was You”. “Maybe, Maybe Not” is a trip into relationship sorrow, a confused and somewhat angry young woman trying to find her way out of an emotionally turbulent tryst.

Newcombe brings back something that has been missing from music for a while, now; a woman whose powerful renderings are straight from the soul. She shuns the dance loop for the effects of two acoustic instruments and rejects mike effects in order to show off a dreamy voice, and comes out on top because of it.