Listening to A Lifetime, you would be forgiven to think that this duo came from the USA with their lush country-fried AOR lullabies, but Dorthe Gerlach and Michael Hartmann are actually Danish chart-toppers and this is a pretty stunning debut album.

They are described as: "a teenage busker influenced by the classic singer-songwriter tradition and a former heavy metal guitarist who has grown bored with speed-rock and is looking for something a little more soulful."

Clearly the singer-songwriter side of Hush won out over the speed-rock and none of A Lifetime is even remotely heavy or fast, and the only guitar work is the jangly styling of the Byrds rather than the thrashings of Megadeth.

Gerlach has been compared to a young Stevie Nicks and there's certainly more than a dash of Fleetwood Mac (not the Peter Green version) here, but her voice is rather more like a fragile Dolly Parton or Alison Krauss and it gives even the less memorable songs a real beautiful quality, highlighted on otherwise lightweight opener If You Go Breaking My Heart.

Say A Little Prayer is much better, while debut single If I Was has a great celtic flavour to it as well being at least partly about incest. It is also definitely the most radio-friendly tune on the album, with Hartmann's guitar plugged in for the catchy and upbeat chorus.

The title track is possibly the best thing on the album however, with much more heartbreak ('losing you is going to take a liftime for me') than you'd expect from a duo who have also become a couple since getting together musically seven years ago. It has a nice dramatic piano line as well as Gerlach's pure voice and surprisingly meaningful lyrics considering they were written in a foreign language for the writers.

Lovestruck is the most country-fried, with a steel guitar swirling around a swinging chorus, while the most Fleetwood Mac-esque is That Don't Make It Right, although the guitar picking and the vocals still give it a distinctly alt.country flavour. It is actually hard to pick out any duff tracks here, perhaps unsurprising as it was so long in the gestation. This is one album that you will be listening to for a lifetime, if that's too obvious a pun...