Mark Owen's solo debut
Green Man is an admirable effort to realign himself with the changing British mainstream, moving him away from
Take That's dance-pop and toward Brit-pop.
Owen's material often doesn't match his ambitions, but producer
John Leckie gives the album an attractive sheen, sounding like a cross between
Radiohead and
the Stone Roses. And the best moments of
Green Man suggest that
Owen could develop a style of his own, which makes the album a small triumph of sorts.
–
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi