There is no doubt that the musicians of Usonic can play: they were nominated in the best jazz act category at this year's MOBOs and have between them played with everyone from Michael Jackson and Beyoncé to Level 42. Yet Evolution has to qualify as one of the most misleadingly titled albums of the year. Rather than taking part in music's continuing evolution, the group exists in a world where punk (and Darwin) never happened. To say that Joe Zawinul – whose voice is sampled on ‘Legacy’ – is an inspiration would be an understatement, but it's a fair guess that Jeff Lorber and even Rick Wakeman are influences too. So startlingly tasteless are some tracks we are left genuinely uncertain as to whether the decision to revisit the worst clichés of jazz fusion is meant to be ironic. Either way, Evolution should have stayed a fun but private jam session: polished but pointless pastiche.