Much has been said about wild-eyed 19 year old singer-songwriter Martin Grech. With a counter-tenor voice that scrapes the opposite ends of the stratosphere and a debut album full of erratic melodies and emotional peaks and troughs, the words 'Jeff Buckley' and 'Thom Yorke' have been tripping off the tongues of all who have heard him for some time now.

They're not lazy comparisons; Grech does sound remarkably like them both. But there's something else in him too, something that separates him from the tribute acts and marks out his very definite potential in indelible ink. While his debut opus Open Heart Zoo is an introspective, haunting record, it's in the live setting that it all comes pouring out; the Bach-esque piano strains of That Song, Open Heart Zoo [yes, the one from the car ad] are instead frenetically arranged across several guitars, sounding not unlike Muse. The fitful, protean Dali sounds more agitated than ever, mutating between swooping vocals underlaid with a whispering carpet of sounds and scattered beats, and all out Rage Against The Machine style riffage.

Grech is also intensely watchable; irises twitching, hands fluttering like shadow-shapes, he's a peculiar and compelling, if at times contrived sight. While the star attraction is his remarkable vocals, Grech's great strength is not his voice, but his versatility. His ability to ricochet between several musical extremes, often within the confines of one song, and yet maintain a tangible and arresting coherence throughout, is rare enough in artists that have been around for years, let alone in a lone 19 year old guy. The songs he's producing at this stage are not works of genius, though their maturity and wilful disposal of musical boundaries are impressive; but there's a sense that this kid has barely started yet. It's gonna be a hell of a ride.