Maroon 5: Hands All Over | CD review

(Polydor)You have to give some credit to Maroon 5: they certainly don't bow to their critics. Long derided as a trumped-up boy band, they now return from a three-year hiatus steadfast in their blandness. So jaunty funk-pop and blustery arena balladry remain the order of the day, while Adam Levine's falsetto whine still proffers all the emotional gravitas of a mosquito. Country-flavoured closer "Out of Goodbyes" suggests a vague desire to branch out, but the fact that the strongest tune is a near...

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