Feelings

Attempting to inject some adventure into his multicultural, -inflected avant-pop, dabbled with and on . These tracks, including a collaboration with , are essentially window dressing, a way to distract attention from 's lack of new ideas. The songs that work best on , like are reminiscent of the percolating, Latin-tinged ; when tries to sound contemporary, he simply seems out of touch. Still, is stronger and more adventurous than , even if it never quite fulfills its ambitions. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine