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Sugababes Album: “Taller in More Ways [Re-Recorded]”
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Taller in More Ways [Re-Recorded] |
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Release Date:2006-09-05
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Pop
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Label:Island
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:602498418970
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Review - :
{$Sugababes} were one of the most consistently successful British pop acts of the 2000s, with an unparalleled string of innovative Top Ten singles and solid if not faultless full-lengths. Their fourth, the awkwardly named {^Taller in More Ways}, was no exception -- indeed it was their first album to hit number one, and among their strongest. As usual, the singles tend to shine the brightest, but there are only a handful of truly lesser tracks scattered among the state-of-the-art dancefloor stompers and towering ballads. The simple yet effective electro-pop club ditty {&"Push the Button"} was the first single (and it topped the charts as handily as its predecessors had), but even better in that category is the monstrously funky {&"Red Dress,"} a {$Xenomania} track reminiscent of their frisky {$Girls Aloud} productions, that makes excellent use of a rejiggered horn section sampled from a '60s Northern soul cut ({&"Landslide"} by {$Tony Clarke}). In the latter column, both {&"Follow Me Home"} and {&"Ugly"} are aptly pitched inspirational mini-epics dealing, respectively, with romantic and body-image issues (even if "we only get judged by what we do" sounds like rather wishful thinking, {$the 'Babes} make you believe it). And it gets deeper than that, in several ways: the breezy, ska-punk-tinged {&"Joy Division"} (which has nothing to do with that band, musically or lyrically); the sugary synth pop of {&"Obsession"} (a cover of '80s new wavers {$Animotion}); the intoxicating, hard-hitting {&"It Ain't Easy,"} which pits a menacingly swung, twangy guitar riff -- lifted so blatantly from {$Depeche Mode}'s {&"Personal Jesus,"} it's a wonder {$Martin Gore} doesn't get a writing credit -- against a martial strut and agitated double-time group vocals. {&"Gotta Be You"} pillages less successfully: despite a passable foundation of synth-fuzz R&B with trendy tabla-esque skittering, it treads so melodically close to {$Aaliyah}'s majestic {&"Try Again"} that it can't help but pale by comparison. Meanwhile, the final three cuts fail to leave much of an impression -- there's nothing like {&"Maya,"} the haunting closer on {^Three}. Even so, the overall quality of the material, the production, and of course {$Sugababes}' trademark vocal work -- subtly satisfying without being showy -- are enough to make this another winner from one of the winningest (and most winsome) pop groups going. [In 2006, following the departure of {$Mutya Buena} from the group, {^Taller in More Ways} was reissued with one new track and re-recorded versions of {&"Gotta Be You,"} {&"Follow Me Home,"} and {&"Red Dress"} featuring new member {$Amelle Berrabah}.] ~ K. Ross Hoffman, All Music Guide
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