AFTER carving out a new niche as a radio DJ, former Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman Huey Morgan is back recording in his own right with an impressive set more varied than one might expect. The old Fun Lovin’ swagger is still in evidence, particularly on Let My People Go and The Way It Was Before, but Morgan’s tender side shows itself on Fall Into Me and even the anti-love song Shaniqua.

He even adds a fine entry to the pantheon of downbeat Christmas songs with Christmas By The Side Of The Road, about a soldier unable to get home for the festivities, and his own ‘‘self-indulgent Pink Floyd song’’ The White Guard.

Tom White