Despite insisting that 2019’s duets album Threads would be her last, Sheryl Crow returns with more “music from my soul”, and she’s on a winner to begin with as the opening brace of singles Alarm Clock and Do It Again play to her strengths: i.e. smooth, groovy, radio-friendly rock.
Love Life also bops along nicely on a bed of ‘na na na’s. After that it all becomes a bit by-numbers.
Have a dig at AI in Evolution by all means, but write a better tune to go along with it; Don’t Walk Away drags like it’s got a boulder tied to its ankle; and the forced jollity of Broken Record is so wide of the goal it’s out for a throw-in.
Crow redeems herself somewhat with the useful chorus of the I-love-my-kids closer Waiting In The Wings, but only somewhat. Some good singles, as always, but unfortunately a long way from career highlights Sheryl Crow and The Globe Sessions.
