Review: Miles Kane’s ‘Don’t Forget Who You Are’

With a CV peppered with collaborations with Alex Turner, Noel Gallagher and now Paul Weller, who co-writes a song here, former Rascal Miles Kane evidently has no trouble attracting A-list patronage. But on the basis of this second album, it isn’t easy to see why. There’s certainly a brash self-confidence to the glam-rock stylings of Taking Over, which wouldn’t have sounded out of place on Arctic Monkeys’ last album, and Ian Broudie’s production means even the less memorable songs pack a muscular punch. Yet too much of the material sounds formulaic, most noticeably a Strokes pastiche, Darkness in Our Hearts and the Verve-by-numbers Out of Control.