A KIND Revolution comes just a few weeks after The Modfather's first movie soundtrack - the excellent Jawbone - which was a departure from his usual style.

Where Paul Weller's work on Jawbone involved folk and sombre, extended dark blues jams, this latest album has touches of The Jam, but skews closer to his own solo work.

Opening with the cheery Woo Sé Mama, it's a foot-tapper from the get-go, including Sixties-style keys, prominent bass, and a guitar doing its thing in the background while everyone seems to have a whale of a time.

Nova is a darker affair, with nods in its opening sombre bars to Joy Division, then attempting to sweep sonically into the style of latter-day David Bowie. Both Weller's vocals and the electronic bleeps and tone seem to pay tribute to some of Black Star's more upbeat moments.

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Dan Bean's verdict: "Overall, it's Weller as you know and love him"

Long Long Road is Weller's attempt at gospel, a real end of the night at a Northern Soul disco kind of a tune, while She Moves With The Fayre is probably the closest in tone and style to his Jawbone soundtrack.

The Cranes Are Back is a great, slower ballad, and one of those songs that sounds like it was written about 40 years ago for Sam And Dave, while New York seems to capture the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple's busy streets in a low-fi way without resorting to using recordings of traffic - until it does, about two-and-a-half minutes in.

Satellite Kid starts as another stripped-down blues number, before the rest of the band get stuck in, but struggles to really say anything new, while The Impossible Idea sounds like a rejected track from Damon Albarn's Doctor Dee album from a few years back.

Overall, it's Weller as you know and love him, with a few new inspirations thrown in for good measure.