RESEMBLING a Dog Day Afternoon Al Pacino, Miles Kane stares from the cover almost daring the listener.

No longer fronting the raggedy, raw Rascals, and out of the shadow of fellow last puppet Alex Turner, Kane lets loose his first solo album. Arctic Monkeys’ chief Turner is still much in evidence as co-writer of half of the dozen tracks, but this is deffo the mark of Kane even if he also enlists other luminaries such as Noel Gallagher, Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys and French actress Clémence Poésy.

Kane challenges you to embrace his transformation from super-charged Scouse scally to soul-licious scamp. The Bolanesque My Fantasy and Happenstance are weak. But deft lyrics and ridiculously brain-snatching songs provide more stand-out moments as in Come Closer, Rearrange, Take The Night From Me and Quicksand, the latter bouncing to a hook-line eerily like the Banana Splits TV series theme. Dreamily swish.