Diana Ross

★★ Thank You

DECCA/UNIVERSAL. CD/DL/LP/MC

Ex-Motown star’s first album since 2006. The last surviving member of the iconic girl group The Supremes, Ross is a bonafide living legend and one of the most decorated singers in pop. But rather than rest on her laurels, the 77-year-old Detroiter has been busy in the studio recording Thank You with a bevy of A-List producers that includes Jack Antonoff (Taylor Swift), Troy Miller (Amy Winehouse) and Freddy Wexler (Justin Bieber). The album begins brightly with the peppy, retro-flavoured title song followed by the euphoric disco groove If The World Just Danced, but swiftly descends into unremitting mediocrity. Most of the remaining songs are anodyne ballads with banal lyrics and some, like Count On Me and A Time To Call, have more schmaltz than Barry Manilow. On the plus side, Ross is in good voice, but as comeback albums go, this is an underwhelming affair.