Deary deary me.Loyal Trooper, AKA Andy Walker, has a fascinatingly annoying voice. Whiney, frail, and with a hint of condescension via constantly sounding like the whole affair's a pisstake, he sings of "sitty sentas" and during 'Five Year Plan' sounds incredibly silly as he swears profusely, and also asks "will they ever get bored of being self-important pricks?" Will they indeed? All this takes place on his EP, One Day This Will All Work Out.I mean, to be fair, there's some competent enough acoustic guitar work here, and the themes are sufficiently "today" and relevant - nostalgia, the tedium of work, all that jazz - but there's too many spectular lyrical clangers (there are musicians that could get away with a line referring to both "local government" and "tax-payer's money" - Loyal Trooper isn't one of them) here and too few genuinely affecting or striking features. And again, that voice just pervades everything - it feels completely bizarre a lot of the time, and especially given how weird Walker's swearing sounds coming from him, it's the only thing you can really focus on, so disruptive is it to what could have been enjoyable enough guitar pop.That, and the determined focus on specifics (Nottingham, Sheffield, this pub, that pub, even specific streets on more than one occasion) combine to be pretty alienating. It's a shame, because this is, in theory, an entertaining, if formulaic, kind of template. But ultimately, there's not a lot to get excited about here. 34%Loyal Trooper on MySpace