The first single from forthcoming album ‘Have You Fed The Fish?’, ‘You Were Always Right’ sees Damon Gough nestle into his new role as Patron Saint of the Cable-Knit Cliche. Accordingly, this is Hugh Grant in song form. It bumbles. It fusses. It splutters something about "the colours of the rainbow" while a steady stream of sap trickles down its leg. It sounds like Babybird. Even a bit in which Gough has a saucy dream about Madonna ends in schmaltz. "I had to turn her down" he warbles in the manner of a man who has won too many awards, "cos I was still in love with you". The mainstream, we conclude, has sucked Damon Gough dry.
Sarah Dempster
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