- Label
- Island
- Release date
- 20th October 2008
- Genre
- Pop
- Buy this album
- Order CD
Sixth album from the first ladies of British pop
The anatomy of the Sugababes album remains the same regardless of line-up changes – upbeat, killer singles at the start, some lightweight soul ballads in the middle and a big torch song at the end. As ever, though, they've tweaked the formula and this time around there's a wonderful 60s girl group shimmy and Motown beat to the opening salvo of Girls, You On A Good Day and No Can Do - all managing to feel retro and modern simultaneously.
After the sassy Destiny's Child style Side Chick the magic fades which makes the closing Can We Call A Truce all the more powerful. A rich, majestic downtempo epic about breaking-up that's up there with Abba and Bacharach. It makes you want to wallow in its misery and crack open the Häagen-Dazs to ease the pain – it's wonderful, and quite possibly their finest moment to date.
More hits than misses.
More to try: Pussycat Dolls: Doll Domination Gabriella Cilmi: Lessons To Be Learned Duffy: Rockferry Rihanna: Good Girl Gone Bad
