HUMAN NATURE: Reach Out: The Motown Record (Sony/BMG).

IS this really necessary? There's no doubt Australia's ubiquitous boy band can harmonise, but this trawl through Motown hits adds zilch to the classic originals. Perhaps the quartet should have revived some more obscure Motown moments (which they do with Edwin Starr's Twenty-Five Miles), but they're on a hiding to nothing taking on Baby I Need Your Loving, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, I'll Be There and The Tracks of My Tears. Glenn A. Baker pays due respect to the songs in his liner notes, a history which dwarfs these four voices.

JEFF CRAWFORD