It sounds like karaoke in places, like his vocals don't go with the music, I don't know. I need to listen to the album in full,, but the only thing that is decent is the AM era Arctic Monkeys ripoff.
Don't know what they did to his vocals, but more than half the songs have a weird effect to them.
Been listening to it a lot over the past two weeks; a few more firm opinions:
"Too good for giving up" is a stock standard ballad but ruined by the embarrassing strain in Liam's voice. If he'd given it a more restrained approach a la "Once" or "Start Anew" it'd be a classic and a hit.
"Free" is still just ghastly and cringe.
More Power, title track, Moscow Rules, and Everything's Electric are the highlights, and Joker is better than half the album tracks.
leeum looked proper mad4it at knobworth