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Sinéad O'Connor's first album comes on like a banshee wail across the bogs. Blending the uncompromising force of folk music, the sonic adventurousness of the Eighties and lyrics that draw on classical history, ghost tales and the Bible, The Lion and the Cobra is easily one of the most distinctive debut albums of the last year.

This achievement is all the more remarkable in that O'Connor - who is twenty years old - produced the album herself and wrote or co-wrote eight of the nine songs on it. Her most significant previous...

Credits include co-writing and singing the haunting song "Heroine" on the Edge's soundtrack for The Captive and writing "Take My Hand," which was recorded by the Irish band In Tua Nua when O'Connor was only fourteen.

With The Lion and the Cobra, Sinéad O'Connor joins the ranks of Kate Bush, Laurie Anderson and Jane Siberry - all women who are shattering the boundaries of pop music.