Album: Brett Anderson, Wilderness (BA Songs)

Brett Anderson's career has not been well served by his poor timing.

With Suede, he arrived too far ahead of the imminent Britpop wave – and unlike Bernard Butler, he didn't have the instinct to jump ship before it sank. In 2005 he misjudged the demand for an Anderson/ Butler reunion. Last year, having managed to further winnow away his shrinking appeal with his solo debut, he released three live double-albums in six months, the kind of output that would stretch the most ardent loyalties to snapping-point.

Less than a year on, this slim suite of melancholy reveries should polish off what remains of Anderson's fanbase, with its parade of bathetic metaphors ("She is strange and solemn/She is like cherry blossom") couched in none-more-glum arrangements of self-pitying piano, guitar and cello. Even the impact of the one half-decent song, "Back to You", has been diminished by its appearance on all last year's live albums, an appropriately thorough act of prematurity on which to conclude his over-extended career.

Pick of the album:'Back to You'