With one hand gripping the foam-lined steering bar of a pushchair, pianist and singer Brenda Earle Stokes scribbled into a notebook and whispered voice notes into her phone. Later, she carried those fragments into a studio for nine days and emerged with eight songs that form her sixth own-label release. It examines parenthood with candour plus a little campiness too.

Stokes spent years taking requests at late-night singalongs on cruise ships. Her facility at the keyboard and charismatic vocal delivery reflect those seaborn experiences, even when presenting insights from pram-pushing on dry land. Three fellow Canadian mothers join her in the studio: one trumpeter and two vocalists. Evan Gregor adds bass, with Ross Pederson on drums.