Album Review of Sunny Side Up by Paolo Nutini.

If he's not quite the "mesmerising, soulful voice that has no equal" that his record label modestly claims, Paolo Nutini does have a bit of gravel in his vocal chords, and an engaging way of putting a tune across. On his second album, he has taken a chance by steering away from the declawed R&B that got him filed alongside fellow pretty boy James Morrison, and gives reggae and Celtic folk a whirl. It's not bad.

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Paolo Nutini tends to get lumped in with the James Morrisons and Blunts of this world, dismissed as a dispenser of tuneful semi-acoustic fare and solid, join-the-dots soul. Worthy. Rather dull. The evidence on his second album suggests he isn't terribly thrilled about this - who would be? - and instead fancies rebranding himself as a mongrel hybrid of John Martyn, Otis Redding and Bob Marley.

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