As a 22-year-old guitar-strummer from Surrey with Mick Hucknall-meets-Benjamin Zephaniah hair, Newton Faulkner is a tantalisingly odd prospect for pop stardom. Not that the record-buying public seems to care, mind: his debut album Hand Built By Robots recently climbed to the top of UK album chart.

'All I Got', its second single, resolutely fails to answer the abiding question: 'Why him?' Though tuneful in a strangely non-committal way, it's hamstrung by lyrics as banal and meaningless as an excerpt from Living The Dream, Chantelle Houghton's rainforest-squandering autobiography. "Everywhere I look, everything's looking so good," he rasps tastefully. "And everyone is you." It's hard to fathom how a man whose middle name is Battenberg – yes, as in the multicoloured teatime treat – could pump out music this characterless.