Kerry singer-songwriter Ian O’Doherty’s début EP ‘Never In Colour’ couldn’t have been more aptly titled because it never produces more than a fleeting glimpse beyond the palette of beige. It’s four tracks are so pristinely produced and delivered that they have been immunised from such diseases as individuality, creativity and excitement.

Opening track The Temptation of Eve sounds as if it has been created in a test tube, earmarked for Rob Thomas, such is its American radio friendly inertia, perfectly suited to soundtrack poignant moments which have been created for a Saturday night injection of unreality television. But if this is all the temptation Eve received then Adam is surely still a virgin.

Home continues the homogenised rhetoric of one size fits all approach to song-writing. O’Doherty’s voice hits each note of this mid-tempo piano-tinged ballad perfectly but, it could just as easily be Micheal Bublé or Adam Levine, such is the force of the faux nondescript emotional delivery. O’Doherty’s inability, or choice, not to expose himself to the listener, via his real accent or through a no holds barred palpable emotional projection, is not this song’s only stumbling block . The spectre of The Isley Brothers’ Summer Breeze permeates this track’s guitar and keyboard parts, distracting the listener.

‘Never In Colour’s’ stand-out moment comes in the form of You’ll Never Find Me, a breezy Joe Chester-esque toe tapper, which sees O’Doherty let us in just long enough to tell us “I’m okay with black and white but better with grey/never in colour where I can be discovered/I’m never in the detail it could catch me out.” Ironically the EP’s finest moment is a lyrical map of what’s wrong with it as a whole. “You’ll never find me” repeats O’Doherty and we never do.

What a pity, because when he finally offers the listener some insight into himself things get somewhat interesting. ‘No More Colour’ is a missed opportunity for Ian O’Doherty to introduce himself to the world as a serious solo artist, but it’s potentially an extremely lucrative proposition if he wants to sell these songs on to established artists.