Ian Brown | Pop review

Brixton Academy, LondonBy conventional measures of musical ability, Ian Brown's performance here – the first of two sold-out nights – warrants a resounding thumbs-down. Never a mellifluous vocalist, his voice has coarsened to the point where what emerges from his throat is a cross between a bark and a rasp, and is shockingly tuneless. He doesn't deliver songs so much as shove them at the listener with a complete absence of the sinuous, blurry grace that makes his albums worth heari...

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