Alice Faye has an arresting voice to lean in to, halt the traffic, transport you to some sepia-tinted romantic realm. In short, Faye is set to turn heads as she prepares for the summer release of her debut Deadbeat EP.

Her exquisitely controlled performances on recent resonant single ‘Jamie’ and the ravishing ‘Later, Later On’ duet with Julen Santamaria of Awkward Family Portraits have the seductive qualities of an Angel Olsen or Lana Del Rey and she readily admits to the timeless influence of Motown girl groups and other commercial greats from yesteryear. ‘Vocally, it starts and ends with my love of Judy Garland,’ she says. ‘As a kid I would watch her musicals back to back.’ From here, it was a short hop to the music of Rufus Wainwright who has inspired her piano-led songwriting, while her first obsession was the music of ABBA: ‘a good place to start,’ she says, ‘cos it’s pop bangers and they are just great singers too.’

Growing up in Glasgow where she is still based, Faye has always been omnivorous in her tastes and style. ‘My dad is a music fanatic, he made me feel it was cool to like all music.’ She started songwriting at secondary school, gravitating to the piano room in her downtime and also joined the school’s soul band because ‘the jazz band had all the older kids’. Having honed some harmonic soul chops, Faye had her jazz moment, attending the National Youth Jazz Orchestra Of Scotland’s summer programme for some intensive, emotional coaching. She even took some opera tuition for her music course audition at The University Of Glasgow.

‘It’s been so great for helping me have control over my voice,’ she says. ‘All of that has fed into what I try to get my voice to do. I don’t really know what I like to sing the most but I think these days it’s probably some hybrid of 50s music and jazz and trying to sound a bit Edith Piaf-y.’ Faye has high standards for her own songwriting, even studying creative writing to enhance her lyrics. It’s no surprise that she namechecks Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan as influences. ‘I’m having a massive phase of Paul McCartney and The Beatles right now,’ she says. ‘Some of their earlier tunes are just absolutely great. So that has inspired this new EP.’

Faye recorded the EP over one weekend with The Kaisers frontman and retro-music maven George Miller. ‘He has this DIY recording set-up which looks like a Soviet Union bunker with all this supercool analogue equipment. He’s so supportive and nurturing and so kind to a lot of people.’ This summer, Faye’s enchanting music will take her to Perthshire’s Solas Festival via a Sofar Sounds session in Paris before she returns to Glasgow to launch her EP in September. Meanwhile, she is already working towards an album which, on current form, has the potential to calm storms.

Alice Faye’s single Nowhere To Go is out on Holy Smokes Records now, with her Deadbeat EP out on Friday 28 July; she plays Mono, Glasgow, Friday 8 September.