Wet Wet Wet split acrimoniously in 1997, with lead singer Marti Pellow spiralling into trouble after hitting Class A drugs and drummer Tommy Cunnigham storming off over arguments about royalties. It sounds like a chapter from the Life and Times of Pete Doherty and The Libertines rather than the backstory to a bunch of Magic radio soft-rockers. Unfortunately any tensions are kept under the surface on this drab pop-flop. It's got 'funky' Jamiroquai horns, Pellow's started singing like Mick Hucknall and the dance backbeat is grey and wrinkly rather than thumping. One for die-hard fans only.









