Call centre holding music, True Stories need not detain you for long once you have successfully passed security. 

Everything is so plastic and over-produced so no surprise there then from the veteran emperors of the smooth jazz universe.

Cloying tunes flavoured by anaemic sax rule as the tame melodies lounge around the poolside spurred on by lightly funky repetitively samey beats that might as well be programmed and played by robots ready to paddle off to sit in the passenger seat of the nearest driverless car. 

What a shocker but not really a revelation if you are familiar at all with the Rippingtons’ work as you will be however inadvertently waiting for that competitive nice price quote for car insurance while the band gets down for the five minutes or so it takes the call wrangler to hone their competitive pitch. Features a returning Brandon Fields, and super slick singer Jeffrey Osborne on the sentimental ‘My Promise To You.’

Stephen Graham