Peter Andre: 'Behind Closed Doors'

One of the by-products of Pete and Katie's messy break-up has been the bizarre resurrection of Andre's pop career. The former six-pack flasher enjoyed an irony-laced revival after I'm A Celeb..., thanks in the main to a Chris Moyles radio campaign and the fact that a certain portion of the country were amused/baffled by the laughably naff 'Insania'. His subsequent Long Road Back album flopped and we've all tried our hardest to forget about the Price/Andre duets disc, but Pete hasn't quite given up on his popstar dream yet.

'Behind Closed Doors' is a musical shift from the ballads ('I Feel You'), '90s pop-rap ('Flava') and cod-reggae ('Mysterious Girl') of old, but sadly Andre's still about ten years out-of-date with his influences. Sounding like a duff Backstreets Boy track with some budget futuristic-rock production, the horror is compounded by Andre's gruff vocals, which have been so nipped and tucked that he barely sounds recognisable. Some of the lyrics threaten to titillate ("Don't believe what you read, half of the things you see"), but they're so unimaginative and desperately cynical that any empathy for the singer is soon lost. Suddenly 'Mysterious Girl' doesn't sound too bad, does it?