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In No Love Lost, Schutt presents songs with persuasive melodies and lyrics that are, without exception, poetic and on-point. These songs are like jazz standards, though they are more intimate than songs written for the Broadway stage. The production is knowing and rich, with gypsy jazz rhythms, sass, and grit reinforcing all this are subtle drums, strings, piano, harmonica by Toronto bluesman Paul Reddick, and breathtaking back-up vocals by Boston blues legend Toni Lynn Washington. You ll also hear Schutt playing the 8-string, a guitar-bass instrument (made legit by jazz guru Charlie Hunter). This is her first recording as adept, and at times inspired, on this instrument. The theme of love reigns in No Love Lost. But love, for Schutt, is never a simple affair. The album is an anatomy of love that does justice to the heavy and slippery nature of the word. In the elegy Mary, the album s most stirring piece, Schutt writes of love for a departed nurse and caregiver. In Calamity, she writes of a bystander s complicated love for an infamous fallen woman. In two songs that may prove to be jazz standards, How Much in Love and Two Halves, Schutt writes of carefree love turned wholly careless. She also pins down unrequited love ( Peter Please ), old love ( The Moon Got Broken ), new love ( The Young ), and even true love ( I m Yours ). Of course, an anatomy of love would be incomplete without a nod to rushed love and vanity Schutt covers this with a daring and sensual interpretation of Sheila E. s Glamorous Life.