For someone with Richard Ashcroft’s ego, the public’s general disinterest in his solo career must have been hard to swallow. If it has prompted a rethink however, 'Break The Night Colour' shows that it might be a masterstroke. This has the easy rolling feel that The Verve so revelled in, topped off with a vocal that is the aural equivalent of that mad Manc stare. Good to have him back.