Conor Maynard: Control – review

(Parlophone)There are those who, upon hearing the little dubstep wobbles on Glass Girl (the penultimate track on teenage pop singer Conor Maynard's debut album) or indeed the subtle drum and bass feints at the start of Take Off, will roll their eyes and bemoan the pop commodification of the underground by cheese-mongering philistines. This would be a mistake.Maynard may be a clean-cut pretty young thing, like Justin Bieber or One Direction or the Wanted. He's 19, looks a lot younger, and grew up...

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