Pop For $ ale

Disappointment was the feeling that prevailed with me after the purchase of "Momentum" (in the deluxe edition). And even after repeated listening, I could not win a conciliatory impression of the new album. I am not adept jazz connoisseur, but always liked Jamie Cullum refreshing crossover, so this unexpected digression on commercial mainstream pop acts simply too clumsy to me.

Is Jamie Cullum accuse the desertion to Pop?

Not necessarily, because that Cullum can use also this genre demanding, he has already proven with previous releases. For example, Elton John's "Rocket Man" and "The Wind Cries Mary" (Jimi Hendrix) he has unmistakably and congenially interpreted and written with "Gran Torino" itself a wonderful pop song. I would have liked to "Momentum" is part of a Jamie Cullum-version of "Standing Still" - the song he for Roman Lob (Euro Vision Song Contest) composed in 2012.
Jamie Cullum so can pop - and yet disappointed the new album, because he is so very ingratiate the Heavy Rotation and inconsequential plastic music prevails, sometimes annoying ("Love for $ ale" feat Roots Manuva.) And very often trivial (" Everything You Did not Do ") and calculating (" The Same Things ") sounds.
A gifted songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with a crowbar trying to storm the charts and scared at the same time many of his fans, who can start absolutely nothing with current pop music (or want).

But even if me a track of the album really like little, the songs are (thanks Cullum's fabulous voice) after all a far cry from the turgid and soulless monsters, with which, for example, "Bruno Mars" or "The Black Eyed Peas" (two of to name a hideous representative of modern music) nerds like driving me insane.
"Momentum" is produced clean and laid out - the album simply lack the Drive, a certain originality and musical shrewdness that I expect of a thirtysomething.

No question: artists need to evolve in order to remain faithful. No drawer is great for a full-blooded musician like Jamie Cullum enough - not even the genre Pop. This gives us hope for the future. Provided Cullum does not tend to Klaustrophilie.