Craig David, Trust Me

It is depressing to remember that Craig David is the same man who used to give us pop classics such as Re-Rewind and Fill Me In. Trust Me opens with a triptych of horn-section-and-samples R&B numbers that bounce along pleasantly, even if they can't quite shake off the cut-price dancefloor feeling that permeates so much British pop; but they are still preferable to the succession of puppy-eyed ballads, almost wholly devoid of interest or edge, which follow. Four tracks in, our man pleads: "Maybe I'm not what you want, but I'm what you need." A sage proposition in life, perhaps - but in pop music, what one needs is exactly the same as what one wants.