TOM Baxter's debut, Feather and Stone, was weighted with tunes that make you want to stop everything and just listen.

Sadly, the songs weren't heard widely enough, or the public just didn't agree, and the record failed to make the impact many felt it would.

Hooking up with Dorset-bred producer/drummer Jeremy Stacey, Baxter's second album was recorded and produced with his own money for his own label.

Oddly enough though, the songs sound more like a major label marketing department's dream than the grittier, more soulful sonic essays of his debut.

Tell Her Today is a plinky-plonk saccharine love song that Callum, Buble and their kind would baulk at.

Elsewhere is sub-David Gray soul scratching like Tragic and Better.