The influence of Tom Grennan, another relative young gun of the singer-songwriter game, is felt only faintly on opener Starlight. My Hero, written by one Ed Sheeran, sounds impressively like a classic Westlife song and gives the quartet a chance to embrace something less faddish and more soulful. Alone Together, for instance, contains the kind of R&B-light pop that Justin Bieber has so effectively monopolised, without his boyish charm or youthful energy. There's something unseemly about four men in their 40s so obviously chasing trends, as they do here. Yet, Wild Dreams is a different kettle of fish. IT WAS difficult not to feel happy for Westlife when their first album in nearly a decade, 2019's Spectrum, became an unlikely number one hit.
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