PAUL WELLER: Other Aspects (Parlophone)

THIS live album captures Weller as never before — singing with an orchestra and, on Books, adding sitar, tanpura and Indian violin. Last year’s superb True Meanings suggested that the mod firebrand had developed a sentimental streak, and he shows the tender touch again on May Love Travel With You. He also revisits The Jam’s Private Hell and The Style Council’s Have You Ever Had It Blue and takes an impressive detour into tango on One Bright Star.