Where We Are by Westlife | CD review

Four sexless, joyless balladeers defined largely by their predilection for stools, Westlife have now cranked out their ninth album in 10 years. Some anaemic guitar riffing on "What About Now" apparently constitutes a "new direction" and the vaguely soul-inflected "Another World" sounds a bit Will Young. Otherwise, such radical experimentation aside, it all blurs into the usual mass of over-production, ersatz yearning and (anti-)climactic key changes. It may be the season for mushy pop, but this ...

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