Album: Philip Selway, Familial (Bella Union)

Drummers' solo albums. Hmmm.

Except Selway is the Ringo of Radiohead and, while his first outing in his own right contains no alarm, it's fair to say it has plenty of surprises. The lack of alarm is due to the gentle, thoughtful, folky flavour.

And the surprises are provided by a better than you'd expect singing voice, a personal way with a lyric entirely lacking from his day-job project and a couple of stand-out tunes any singer-songwriter would be proud of. More of those and there'd be little need for either Thom or tom-toms.