- Artist
- All Saints
- Label
- Parlophone
- Release date
- 13th November 2006
- Genre
- Pop
Some record label blurb accompanying this album suggests it is the most anticipated comeback album of 2006. As if 2006 was the year of the comeback album and this one was mos' def' top o' the heap.
So is it? Top of the heap? Well, it's not bad, that's for sure. Most of the songs have a hook big enough to land a whale and the girls have certainly come out fighting, sounding a darn sight more funky and quirky than the material that made their names five or six years ago.
But from the opener, Rock Steady, one can't help feeling that the quartet has made a conscious decision to move into Girls Aloud territory. Chick Fit is in much the same vein. With On & On there's a harking back to the stuff they did first time around, complete with dreamy harmonies, while Scar, co-penned by Melanie, has a bump and grindingly ska tip.
This album sounds like an attempt to show that while they may be mums now they can still strut their funky stuff. It works, more or less, but the nagging feeling remains that others have entered the musical arena in the intervening years and have stolen the girls' pop tiaras.
