Bruno Mars: The Romantic review – you’re better off listening to the songs he’s blatantly imitating

(Atlantic) Harking back to Oye Como Va, Move On Up and other 20th-century classics, Mars’s homages are beautifully performed but bereft of new ideas It is 10 years since Bruno Mars last released a solo album. An eternity in pop music, and yet you’d struggle to describe the follow-up to the umpteen-platinum 24K Magic as eagerly awaited: not for reasons of snark, but simply because the world has hardly been starved of Bruno Mars in the intervening decade. With Anderson .Paak, he co-piloted Silk...

By Alexis Petridis