Critics of Goodwin's main band Doves – currently on indefinite hiatus – tend to portray the trio as comfortable indie plodders. His first solo album is a decent riposte: full of urgent, abrasive songs on which Goodwin sounds both creatively invigorated and thoroughly pissed off. Live Like a River seethes with heavily distorted guitars, Man v Dingo lurches recklessly between acid house, ska, jazz and junkyard cabaret. There's nothing as unanswerably anthemic as Doves' best moments – Hope, especially, finds Goodwin straining for stadium uplift where a light touch is needed – but overall, he still sounds like a man with plenty left to say.