Odulek

Having spent the last decade and a bit fronting now muchmissed Manchester band Doves, Jimi Goodwin was a little touch nervous about making music under his own name. He needn't have worried. Bouncing joyfully from genre to genre, Odludek has all the thrill and excitement of an artist's debut record whilst also displaying the wealth of experience of someone who s spent the last two decades making inspirational music.

Odludek is co-produced by Jimi and Dan Austin (Doves, Pixies) and features tracks co-written with Elbow's Guy Garvey and one 'Didsbury Girl' with Simon Dine (who collaborated with Paul Weller on his recent run of albums). Impossible to pigeonhole, properly addictive and hook heavy, Odludek is the first great record of 2014.