“A trenchantly individual piece of work, No More Tiptoes is the debut CD from London-born singer, poet, photographer and filmmaker Paula Rae Gibson. Stripped down to just keyboard and voice, music-making doesn't get much more personal than this. Some of the songs almost give the impression of being improvised – ‘Busy Fairies' being a prime example – while others such as ‘I'll Always Walk Away' have a more clearly defined harmonic motion.

Pianist Tom Pilling creates a variety of atmospheric soundscapes, from rippling right-hand figurations and booming bass octaves to the merest chordal fragments, against which the singer delivers her painful and questioning soliloquies in a voice that at times is so gossamer-light it threatens to evaporate into the ether. A disc that's simultaneously disconcerting and moving." Peter Quinn, Jazzwise

" Singer, photographer and writer Gibson's creative raison d'etre stemmed from the untimely death her husband and acclaimed filmaker Brian (director of 'What's Love Got To Do With It'). Using over-proof, raw emotion, stunning instinctive melodies and controlled improvisation, her 'No More Tiptoes' is a highly personal take on dealing with love and grief, while pianist Tom Pilling frames Gibson's crystalline, emotional gems with a fractured, Jarrett-ish style. With comparisons to Kate Bush and Tori Amos, but a distincly improvised jazz twist, this is refreshingly honest music." (Mike Flynn, Time Out)

WE BLOW IT EVERY TIME SELECTED AS A TRACK OF THE YEAR FOR 2007 BY TIME OUT MAGAZINE.