Album: Brett Anderson, Wilderness (BA)

If the French had a singer like Brett Anderson, they'd have erected a statue to him by now. England, it seems, still doesn't know what it's got.

As the dust of the Suede years clears, the effortless elegance of Anderson's voice becomes a thing of ever-greater wonder. On 'Wilderness', his second solo album, he's channelling the mood of Suede's 'Dog Man Star', specifically its dramatic ballads. With Amy Langley's cello complementing his own piano, this intimate 10-song set sees Anderson doing what he does best: that is, inflating the quotidian details of private break-ups into grand, sweeping, world-scale romances.

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