Product Description
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Eleventh studio album by the popular Australian singer. The album
reached the top spot in the UK Albums Chart and features the
singles 'All the Lovers' and 'Get Outta My Way'.
Review
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Kylie Minogue. You may have heard of her. You probably have a
favourite era or phase: perhaps when she was Indie Kylie and
hanging with Nick Cave and the Manics; or Dance Kylie, when she
minxed up in the mid-90s. Maybe you like the tinny early SAW
efforts that launched her from a soap being onto a trajectory of
superstardom, and breathed a sigh of when she rediscovered
her pop mojo in the early 00s. Whatever the time or place,
there's no denying that in the 23 years since I Should Be So
Lucky, Kylie has briefly tickled, illuminated or completely
absorbed an area of your life.
For her followers Aphrodite is the Kylie of Fever and Light
Years: frothy, intensely hummable dance pop. The sort of thing
she does with such effortlessness and grace. Lead single All the
Lovers emits everything that X–her 'comeback' album from 2007
which spectacularly bungled its single releases, and in turn
wasn't really what her fans were expecting–didn't. With most of
the production handed to Stuart Price, who has provided magic in
the past for Madonna and helmed the new Scissor Sisters album
(among numerous other impressive credits), this is a return to
form so astonishing that one's life can only be enhanced with
repeated plays.
There are treats galore to be heard here: next single Get Outta
My Way should destroy every dancefloor between here and the
furthest reaches of the universe; the Jake Shears/Calvin
Harris-penned Too Much is a rave monster; and the tech-country
strut of Better Than Today throws up imagery of line-dancing
cyborgs. The title-track is a -drummed happy-clappy back,
Back, BACK moment, which will be the moment of her live set when
she actually explodes. Contrasting that track, the Tim
Rice-Oxley-written number Everything Is Beautiful is about the
mellowest thing here, but welcome after the tremendous onslaught
of the opening quartet. Concluding with the cowbell-assisted
frisky Daft-ness of Can't Beat the Feeling, this stunning album
is an all-killer, s-aloft amazing triumph.
Aphrodite is pure Kylie magic. Everything that made you fall in
love with her all over again before is present and correct here.
Not liking this would be like not being keen on breathing. All
hail!
--Ian Wade
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About the Artist
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You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of "pop"
artists who've lasted more than a decade, let alone more than
two! In July 1987 Kylie released her first single; a remake of
the 1962 Little Eva hit "Locomotion". The song hit No.1 in
Australia and remained in the top spot for seven weeks, becoming
the biggest Australian single of the `80's. Two decades later
Kylie achieved the record for the most played female artist on UK
radio over the last 20 years!
Since then she has released eleven studio albums, two live CDs,
eight live concert DVD's, plus her Greatest Hits and the Ultimate
Kylie double album and multiple video packages. This is of course
in addition to almost 50 singles released internationally, all of
which have been hits.
The summer of 2010 ushered in a new and exciting era in Kylie's
incredible story, the era of the `Aphrodite'. Kylie's 11th studio
album has been generating huge levels of excitement even before
release, and the first single, `All the Lovers' has been hailed
as `one of the best Kylie songs ever' (News Of The World).
Aphrodite sees Kylie collaborating with an impressive array of
talent from the pop and dance worlds including: Calvin Harris,
Jake Shears, Sebastian Ingrosso (Swedish House Mafia) Nerina
Pallot, Cuther, Nervo & Tim Rice-Oxley. The maestro that is
Stuart Price executive produced the album and Music Week declared
that `Aphrodite has seen Kylie Minogue return to her uplifting
dance-pop best'!
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