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Written by Keith Kirchner   
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ROBERT PALMER Rhythm & BluesThirteen years on from his commercial peak with Addicted To Love, Robert Palmer delivers a new set of songs as polished and elegantly worsted as the singer himself, though too many hide behind digital wizardry to arouse much more than weary admiration. His singing here is a buttoned - up, effect laden affair that does him no justice - there's more of that curious, corner - of - the - mouth delivery that suggests he's passing tips on the horses. And for a songwriter who's just turned 50, Palmer shows no sign of letting up on the "this one's for all the ladies" approach, with titles such as Sex Appeal and a misguided assault on Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On. Only at the end, on the cover of Twenty Million Things by Little Feat's Lowell George, with whom he worked at the beginning of his solo career, does Palmer open up his lungs and let rip. The rest is just tailoring.

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