Had to drive to Heathrow today to pick up someone so took the oppotunity of listening to a CD I got for Christmas [yes, I know it's February but this is the state of my life at the moment]. Will Young's KEEP ON album.
Mainstream pop I know, but I really loved FRIDAY'S CHILD and this 2nd album is just as good if even richer. Young is something of a dark horse. A talent TV show winner who somehow has broken away and managed to carve his own name/path and quietly recorded his own stuff rather than be dicated too by record company management.
He also writes most of his own stuff but it's his arrangements which make his songs cut away from the norm. They are lushly orchestrated and he manages to just hit the right 'groove'.
The title track is a great opener, all the tracks are strong and Happiness gives you a feeling that summer is coming!
Don't right him off as merely 'pop' there is much more here and it's worth a listen.

"This is my time and these are my needs"
SWITCH IT ON