The whole thing sounds like a series of half-finished demos, rather than a proper finished album intended for release. Knowing nothing about it, I strongly suspect that's because that's what it is, and that's why he decided to call himself just "Anthony" and why he billed British Ballads as his "proper" debut solo album. Too much "proper" going on in this paragraph.

But British Ballads was lovely, you clot. Except for the way he pronounces "cat" in "standing naked in the kitchen, with your arms around the ca-t", like that weird woman who used to do the gocompare.com adverts and really heavily accentuate the "t" in dot-com.

The third Jack album is excellent, just not as excellent as the first two. The poorly-written eMusic review was me (I think I was still delirious with flu or something), I still agree with its conclusions.