Featured Album: All Saints - Studio 1
Labels: All Saints, British Invasion, Featured Album, Music, Pop
On hearing All Saints tremendous comeback single Rock Steady, Cheryl Tweedy of Girls Aloud sniped that it was influenced by the Girls [whose own sound, she failed to add, owed much to the Saints]. Saint Mel Blatt's dry retort - "We could only aspire to be like Girls Aloud" - proved that the reunited 1990s foursome are taking up where they left off six years ago.
Studio 1 offers a fresh take on their girl-group style. Always R&B-inclined, their harmonies are now judiciously seasoned with reggae and ska. Their differences apparently behind them, Blatt, Shaznay Lewis and the Appleton sisters sigh and yearn as one, mostly to delightful effect. The 2Tone-ish Scar overflows with sweetness, but there's sizzling suspicion on the dancehall-pop Hell No, and indignation on the wayward reggae of Too Nasty. These thirty-something mums still got it going on.
All Saints' Studio 1 album was released in the UK on November 13th 2006.
Tracks:
01 Rock Steady
02 Chick Fit
03 On And On
04 Scar
05 Not Eazy
06 Hell No
07 One Me And U
08 Headlock
09 Too Nasty
10 In It To Win It
11 Flashback
12 Fundamental
Studio 1 offers a fresh take on their girl-group style. Always R&B-inclined, their harmonies are now judiciously seasoned with reggae and ska. Their differences apparently behind them, Blatt, Shaznay Lewis and the Appleton sisters sigh and yearn as one, mostly to delightful effect. The 2Tone-ish Scar overflows with sweetness, but there's sizzling suspicion on the dancehall-pop Hell No, and indignation on the wayward reggae of Too Nasty. These thirty-something mums still got it going on.
All Saints' Studio 1 album was released in the UK on November 13th 2006.
Tracks:
01 Rock Steady
02 Chick Fit
03 On And On
04 Scar
05 Not Eazy
06 Hell No
07 One Me And U
08 Headlock
09 Too Nasty
10 In It To Win It
11 Flashback
12 Fundamental