Twenty years ago Robbie Williams walked away from the world’s biggest boy band, Take That, and everyone assumed he would disappear. Little did we suspect the huge talent lurking underneath his immodest exterior. Attempting to follow that same path is Zayn Malik, formerly of One Direction. While the shouty Pillowtalk single relies on its sexy video more than its tune for popularity, there’s plenty else here to suggest that Zayn fleeing 1D might have been the best decision of his career. With perhaps an over-reliance on slow jams it’s still a musical setting where he’s most comfortable, such as on Rear View, which deserves to be his biggest hit yet. Now if we could just convince him to do that speedo shoot for DNA we could all die happy!