★★☆☆☆
Having scored a jackpot five years ago with the unimpeachable Uptown Funk, Mark Ronson returns with an album featuring a broad range of female vocalists, from the brash pop sensation Miley Cyrus to the ultra-fashionable LGBT star King Princess.
Unfortunately the lightweight pop, yacht rock and high-street friendly dance music they are fronting, which features plenty of seemingly emotional words, but little conviction and too much conventionality, is supremely forgettable.
Lykke Li’s Late Night Feelings comes and goes in a disco blur, Camila Cabello sounds not so much laconic as bored on Find U Again, and so much of this is perfectly serviceable pop without much in the way of real character. Only on Truth, a futuristic, house-tinged floor-filler with a husky vocal spot from…
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