Album review: Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment

GENERALLY, it doesn't pay to export graduates from reality singing contests, Kelly Clarkson, Leona Lewis and Susan Boyle being the only successful transatlantic exchanges to date.

Adam Lambert wasn't even the winner, but runner-up on last year's American Idol but it's a mark of his tremendous vocal chops and showmanship that he's getting the international push with an eclectic debut, boasting a stellar writing line-up, including Lady Gaga, Pink, Linda Perry, Muse's Matt Bellamy, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo and ex-Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins, and production from Rob Cavallo and Max Martin among others.

Far from being swamped by his collaborators, Lambert rises to the top of this gleaming, commercial cocktail of glam rock, electro pop and swooning balladry with flamboyant, falsetto flair. An astute pop star is born.