(Island)Former child actor Aubrey Graham's much-vaunted sensitivity and introspection is more hollow than ever on his second album. It's mostly condescending to women and consists of self-pitying whinges about expecting sympathy for liking strippers. In place of characterisation and detail, he repeats lines as though casting around for a prompt – often as an inadequate excuse for a hook, as on Cameras and Make Me Proud – and drops wretched clunkers such as "Shout out to the Asian girls, let ...
Guardian Music — (Island)Former child actor Aubrey Graham's much-vaunted sensitivity and introspection is more hollow than ever on his second album. It's mostly condescending to women and... more info