Tom Jones, 24 Hours (S-Curve)

He made ersatz bachelor pad soul for years, and it’s what he makes here. And the results are just as much fun, if just as secondhand. Only the modern-sounding “Sugar Daddy” (written by Bono and the Edge) sounds out of place because a) nothing else here sounds contemporary, and b) faux really only works if you keep the mask up. If you reveal that you know better, the question arises why you didn’t go for better.