SOTW for May 1! We're nearly a month behind so I think we're just going to post the videos, and maybe write more after we get off our asses. Here's mine for May 1, "Starlight" by Sophie Ellis Bextor from her electro-poptastic new album, Make a Scene. As it took more than a year to be released, I was expecting a problematic album. But in fact, every song sounds like a single, apart from the disappointing title track.
Sophie really is unlike any other singer around these days. She's always seemed older than age and is definitely an old-school popstar (she doesn't do choreography or lipsynch). But she seems in total control of her career, and has amassed a number of impressive singles that range from indie (her work with former band theaudience), dance ("Murder on the Dancefloor"), rock ("Catch You") and pop ("Me and My Imagination").
"Starlight" is dancey ballad, and while I'm not exactly sure how I would describe her voice—smoky? bleating? raspy?—she manages to wring every bit of emotion out of the song.
Apparently she's already hard at work on her next album, reportedly writing with Bernard Butler from Suede, in what she claims will be a synth-free record. Imagine that!
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