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Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up

Paolo Nutini has been sitting under a strange kind of sun lately.      2009's Sunny Side Up album may have won him a Brit Awards nomination, but I think Nutini fans may be a little disappointed by the songs that make it up. If you were expecting something of the same calibre as the single Pencil Full of Lead , you're in for a surprise- aside from the misleadingly upbeat 10/10 which heads up the twelve-track CD, the album is mostly populated by reflective, ambiguous, mellow songs. Some are even a bit slushy. Maybe this was the reason for the eggs in the title.      A couple of years ago my mum and sister saw dear Paolo at Glastonbury singing I Wanna Be Like You to a toy orangutan, drunk as a lord. But here Nutini's certainly sounding more mature and sober- his vocals deepen one minute and croon in falsetto the next, his guitar swaps between chugging through a country chord sequence and humming melodiously under borderline-religious lyrics. The track Coming Up Easy speak