Tom Odell: Wrong Crowd review – a few new moves, but still playing it safe

(Columbia)The idea of angel-faced piano man Tom Odell hanging with the wrong crowd is, frankly, risible. But the title track of the Ivor Novello award-winner’s second album adds a couple of new dimensions to Odell’s nicey-nicey USP: a regretted past, possibly fictional, and some more muscular moves. Magnetised rues a wrongly polarised relationship with arena ambitions redolent of Odell’s most direct antecedent, Chris Martin. The arresting Concrete, meanwhile, finds Odell bus...

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