Leon Jackson: 'Don't Call This Love'

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Rhydian was more of a showman, and Same Difference had a greater sense of fun, but Leon Jackson trumped them both on last year's X Factor with his easy, unassuming charm and increasingly confident performances. Now, having taken the Leona Lewis approach towards making his debut album - "Take your time, get it right..." - he's ready to attack the charts again.

'Don't Call This Love', the album's lead single, is a thoroughly pleasant, classic-sounding ballad that anyone from Ronan Keating to Cliff Richard could carry off. The luxuriant strings swell in all the right places, and Jackson's vocals are just are as smooth as they were on The X Factor, but there's a lack of character here that the glossy production can't quite disguise.


> Click here to read our interview with Leon Jackson