Rebecca Ferguson: Heaven – review

(RCA)With Christmas around the corner, you can hardly move for X Factor-related stocking-fillers – recent weeks have yielded albums from One Direction, Matt Cardle, Cher Lloyd et al. But the best, relatively speaking, has been saved for last. Scouse soul-popper Ferguson, 2010's runner-up, has been spared the generic ballad/urban treatment and allowed to go her own retro-soul way, a move that makes the most of her rich, emotive voice. The usual sidemen, including Cardle co-composer Eg White, a...

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