Album of the day ” The Wave” Tom Chaplin

Tom Chaplin is the lead singer of Keane. This solo album is really a record that feels like a diary, revealing the demons that he has struggled with including food, drugs and the pressures of fame. There is also the way forward – his partner and his new child have helped Chaplin to have a sense beyond the problems of fame. These well crafted songs are very like Keane – but he can hardly do anything else. The recurring image of water in ” The River” and ” The wave.” This is the sound of a man in his 30s taking stock and asking questions in song for himself and also of all of us. It is good to see that Roy Castle’s son Ben is one of the people behind this record. Chaplin’s voice as much as Chris Martin’s or Lily Allen’s has dominated radio in the last fifteen…