Poor Nick Lachey. First he was part of bland US boy band 98 Degrees - quickly eclipsed by rivals N'Sync - then his fairytale marriage to singer Jessica Simpson turned into an MTV-sponsored horror show. With the couple's divorce now final, he picks over the corpse of their relationship with all the rage, regret and relief you'd expect from a man whose ex-wife is much more famous than he is. "You're not the person that you used to be," he moans in I Can't Hate You Anymore, hoping Simpson has to beg, crawl, burn, bleed "and smile through it all", as apparently he did in I Do It For You.

It's a predictably monotonous and breathy pop-rock affair that sees Lachey torn between bitching and begging for a second chance. But Ghosts, written by Jamie Cullum, is a subtle move into AOR, and the emotion Lachey forces into every note sounds genuine enough.