- The Trouble With Templeton is the moniker of young Brisbane chappy Thomas Calder. His singer / songwriter style is a chip off the old block, strumming away on his acoustic guitar and unleashing the music of inner turmoil. I think many of you would have heard that particularly angsty lead single, the album's title track Bleeders, full of 'raging scorn', but still, certainly most listenable. I do have some small concern about the damage he inflicts on his young voice, aiming for those top notes but instead nearly tearing a whole in his throat by the sound of it. He does a better job, vocally, on the skittery social angst of the album's opener When Will, which still features a full throated chorus of released emotional tension. If you like that the album will certainly make you happy with much more of the same. Yet I think a second single is more likely to be the wistful folk with poppish attributes that is I Wrote A Novel - a not quite coming of age song that is powered by swiftly moving guitar adorned by bittersweet accordian - it's hard not to smile at it's shrugging acceptance of one's own little foibles. Things are a bit different on the gospel stomp of Someday Soon which was a pleasant change of pace. Elsewhere I feel the album could've been blessed with a trifle more inspiration. One wonders if the track Little Quirk needed to be here: two minutes of Templeton repeating the line "Stop Making That Noise / It Annoys", yes well, quite. Still, for the most part a nicely produced and pleasant bit of a folk music debut. If I remember correctly Thomas Calder is really still very young. Singing and songwriting is the sort of thing which benefits from a little age and experience, so it will be interesting to hear what's coming next from The Trouble With Templeton. What's coming right now is what I think, fingers crossed, will be his next single, I Wrote A Novel - see what you think.