Will Young: Echoes – review

(RCA)Incredibly, it's been nearly 10 years since Will Young won Pop Idol, since which he's become a reliable source of decent chart pop. So his decision to enlist producer Richard X and dabble with synths on his fifth album feels like a legitimate move rather than a clutching-at-straws gesture, and he carries it off successfully. The songs are downtempo and spacious, and Young's vocals have a morning-afterish quality that suits him very well – though he occasionally lets loose an affected fals...

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