I Am Kloot: Sky at Night | The albums we missed | CD review

(Shepherd Moon/EMI)This Manchester trio's breakthrough fifth album didn't scale the commercial heights of producer Guy Garvey's Elbow, but saw Kloot breach the Top 30 and land a Mercury nomination. It finds crooner John Bramwell stumbling from life's last chance saloon and gazing up at the stars, breath smelling of alcohol and heart filled with hope. These are wonderfully introspective, downbeat yet somehow uplifting songs. "Do you fancy a drink, I know a place called the brink?" asks Bramwell...

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