Familial

'When you're the same age as the Prime Minister, you think, I'd better get on with this,' Philip Selway grins as he acknowledges the new sea change in British politics, but popularity is generally a passing phase while your first album - that's forever. Knowing time waits for no one, he has delivered 'Familial,' a collection of sublimely fragile, haunting, and heartfelt songs that will surprise many, and not only because drummers traditionally don't do this kind of thing. 'Familial' is so persuasively good, it sounds like Selway has always been a singer-songwriter.