OK kids; get your headphones ready and your excited faces on because some brand new music is heading our way this summer! The two new albums that I am most excited about are Kylie Minogue’s “Aphrodite” and Scissor Sisters’ “Night Work”. Yes, you read right. New Kylie and Scissor Sisters in the same summer! I am so excited I alliterated without even trying!
Kylie’s first single off “Aphrodite” is entitled “All the Lovers” and is already becoming a hit on the radio. I listened to it for the first time last weekend when it was released online and I was enraptured – a strong word, I know, but it’s truly how I felt. There is an ethereal quality to this song that is not quite like anything I have heard from Ms. Minogue before. She has always had that cheesy electro pop sound defining her music, which worked wonders for her smash 2002 album “Fever”, but, despite critical success with her two subsequent albums, I felt they were a bit “same old same old”. How pleasantly surprised I was then when I laid ears on “All the Lovers”. It still has that signature electro-pop sound, but more mature now and sitting at the grown up’s table. If the rest of the album follows suit with “Lovers”, then we are all in for a real treat come July 5th when it is released.
Scissor Sisters are also sounding pleasantly different these days. They have been giving sneak previews of tracks from “Night Work” on their website which is where I heard their new song “Invisible Light”. If I didn’t know what I was listening to, I might not have guessed it was Scissor Sisters coming through my speakers. We all fell in love with those over the top campy tunes from their first two albums and I was expecting more of the same this time around. Instead, I encountered a much harder, and heavier vibe with less falsetto and more pulsing bass - visions of dark, smoke machine filled basement clubs dancing in my head. I have read that the band had a hard time putting this album together, and ended up scrapping their first try all together prompting them to take a break during which they got inspired by euro-disco and techno from the 70s and 80s. The visions of smoky basements now all make sense. I like what I have heard so far. It is a new step for this group, and I think, one in a good direction. Look for “Night work” on June 28th.
To hear Kylie’s “All the Lovers” click here:
http://www.kylie.com/
To Hear Scissor Sisters’ “Invisible Light” click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPnDEvn_HW0
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