Music

Unashamedly grown up, the debut solo effort from the former Suede singer is a record that eschews entirely the clanging guitars with which he  made his name in favour of polished, string-laden pop. The titles alone (‘The More We Possess The Less We Own Of Ourselves’) indicate that over-seriousness is still very much the order of the day, while lyrical lapses into Suede-speak (‘I am the needle/You are the vein’) serve only to pen their creator further into the corner he so clearly wants to escape.