I Blame Coco: The Constant – review

(Island)Coco Sumner has more to prove than most 20-year-old singers releasing their first album: not only is she the offspring of Sting, she's inherited his voice. His voice? She's got everything from the familiar husky exhalations to his penchant for emphasising lines with a startling, top-of-his-register yowl. If she also had the songwriting spark that produced new-wave classics such as Roxanne, this would be one exciting album, but The Constant is essentially a mildly promising debut by a...

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