Album: Duke Special, I Never Thought This Day Would Come, (V2)

The third album by Peter Wilson, the russet- dreadlocked singer-pianist from Lisburn, is a thing of some charm in small doses, but which stretches one's tolerance across 16 tracks.

His strong Emerald Isle singing accent ("now" is pronounced "nigh", and so on) invites comparison to Celtic soul predecessors such as Hothouse Flowers and the Waterboys, but Wilson's palette encompasses several other roots musical forms, from reels to reggae to ragtime.

Pick of the album: Push comes to shovel: 'Diggin' an Early Grave'