Bowling for Columbia

It sounds like someone lured Barry White and Cardigans into a recording studio and asked them to do some sexy 21st century Motown pop with attitude. John Legend’s US-platinum-selling last album from 2004 is an average 90s-Lauryn Hill-attempt (even the cover design is similar), but now it sounds like this ex-Boston Consulting consultant (!) has finally stepped out of the copy closet. He’ll start up a short European tour in Columbiahalle in Berlin on September 21, and if his new Save Room single won’t get heavy rotation on radio this autumn (especially the public Scandinavian ones), I will eat the only hat I own.