Irish singer/songwriter Andy Flannagan sings with brutal evocative honesty about a variety of situations. The theme of the album comes out most strongly on the album’s highlights Open Arms and Watch This Space, which are a pair of “good dad/bad dad” songs. The first gives a new twist to the story of the Prodigal Son and the second tells the story of a teenager rejected by his father. Arms and Stop were written after he travelled to Bangladesh with Tear Fund and they’re powerful stuff.