james morrison

This deluxe edition of James Morrison's double platinum album Songs For You, Truths For Me features the existing album plus two brand new tracks ("Get To You" and "On The Same Side") on one disc, and an intimate acoustic performance on the other. Morrison handpicked a selection of his favourite songs from this album and his debut, the Brit winning Undiscovered, to perform acoustically on the second disc as well as a stunning interpretation of Michael Jackson’s "Man In The Mirror".

Released three years to the day after his previous LP, the chart-topping Songs for You, Truths for Me, The Awakening returns James Morrison to the business of bothering the middle-of-the-road with his Rod Stewart-meets-Ben Ottewell tones. There are countless worse noises in pop – but there’s nothing in his voice, fine though it is, that conveys the emotional weight he should perhaps be carrying after such childhood hardship school-days loneliness, and he nearly died as an infant. It’s a television talent show beast, a chimera of sorts, halfway between the soul singers he loved growing up and the grit of an indie frontman. It just exists, peculiarly passionless, when it should grab hold of the listener and demand that they pay it their utmost attention.