Trey Songz: Trigga review – seductive power

An R&B singer with the smile of the boy next door and the six-pack of a professional athlete, Trey Songz has sometimes been credited with having invented sex. He probably didn't, but he does sing about it a lot, and it's fair to assume that his carnal enthusiasms are partly responsible for a career that's now six albums deep. Trigga, 20 songs long, is packed with it, from opener Cake ("Once I blow the candles out/ Put it in my face") to Mr Steal Your Girl and Touching, Loving. Most modern R&B mores are present, from Drake sing-rapping, to genital-wobbling sub bass. There's even a Fugees rip (the hook from Ooh La La La), which is so very 2014. It might all feel a little mechanical, but Trigga does hang together, and has a seductive power that (one presumes) is befitting of the man himself.