Rating: NNN
UK gentleman/pretty boy R&B star Craig David’s new album is just like his second album, Slicker Than Your Average, which was exactly like his first album, Born To Do It – all of which are softer than soap opera lighting. Yes, David has found a formula and stuck to it: catchy acoustic guitar-based jamz about relationship issues and, every so often, miscellaneous subjects like how unfair bullies are. The production is lukewarm and sanitized, and even at his most bad-boy he’s still pretty tame. But you can’t knock David’s voice, which occasionally behaves like Marvin Gaye’s and usually exudes a gentle warmth that makes you like him in spite of yourself.