‘Across The Raccoon Strait' feels like the moment Meels stops searching for her voice and starts fully inhabiting it. There’s a sense throughout the record that Meels has found a creative home, and she invites you in without ceremony. There’s warmth in its humour and a looseness in its groove, but also an underlying awareness of impermanence that keeps it from ever feeling throwaway. Produced by Meels alongside Peter Groenwald and Mark Campbell, Across The Raccoon Strait sounds cohesive without being rigid. Taken as a whole, ‘Across The Raccoon Strait' feels less like a stepping stone and more like a statement of arrival.