Judging by the audience reaction to her launch night concert, Niki King’s album title, It’s All Good, might be underselling it a bit. If the response of the Queen’s Hall crowd is anything to go by then It’s All Flipping Brilliant might be more like it – pardon my French.

King is in possession of a powerful, passionate voice capable of ringing every ounce of emotion from her self-penned songs whether it’s lung rippers such as the title track or smoke and ice blues like This Love and backed by her ten piece band, The Elements she’s got the perfect vehicle for her souring soulful vocals. Between them they create an impressive sound, powerful enough to knock you off your feet and more importantly funky enough to get you up on them and moving.

Having said all that it took a couple of numbers before King could get the crowd up and dancing – this is Edinburgh after all – but the quality of the musicianship on display and most importantly the quality of the songs proved irresistible and by the end they were dancing ’round their tables and shaking their pews in time with the beats.

Looking slinky in sequins King also had a fine line in stagecraft. Apart from being skilled in rousing the crowd she also played the emotional card with pauses and almost breakdowns, heightening the melodrama of the torch songs and teasing the room with anticipation of the next outpouring of pain.

The main thing though about this concert, especially as it was there to promote a new album, was the quality of the product on show. King isn’t a shoe gazing introspective singer or songwriter; this is pain on a plate, with every tear shed, every broken relationship, and all the chest pounding exhilaration of new love front and centre. The Elements add the engine that propels all this raw emotion and they produce an incredible sound worth listening to.

There were many in the audience who had heard Niki King in various guises over the years and, no doubt, were unsure about this funkier identity. But in the end good music is good music and by the close of the night she’d more than won them over and if you can get a reticent Edinburgh crowd shaking their groove, you can take on the world.