Albums of the week

SOUL/POP

Adrian Crowley: Dark Eyed Messenger (Chemikal Underground)

There isn’t any mistaking Irish songwriter Adrian Crowley and if you think he’s going to ‘reinvent’ himself any time soon, you may as well take a hike. Crowley has been a quiet, solemn presence for almost 20 years and while he has fine-tuned creative stances from the release of his 1999 debut album, A Strange Kind, it’s fair to say that shifts in mood ...