What are we to make of Carey Ott and his music? Is he the new Jackson Browne, are his sleek and seductive melodies what could be called quiet storm? His voice is human silk and his arrangments and lyrics carry a lot of muscle while adding up to the seduction album of the year. Ott has evolved his craft from Torben Floor, a band more in common with the punk sounds of The Ramones or The Undertones, through country and now to this hybrid of all that he has been through. I’m reminded of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson’s great line: “I am a part of all that I have met.” Carey Ott is like that, his lyrics have a universal poignance, we’ve all been there, just most of us dissolve into frustration rather than turning that emotion into a three-minute beauty of a pop tune.

Now it’s hard not to use the word sensitive when you’re describing Carey Ott’s music, there’s always that derisory sensitive singer/songwriter connotation. So while there are many simpering acts that we can write...