Girls Aloud - Out Of Control: amazing

Here is a nice picture of Girls Aloud. It was in the latest issue of Attitude, which is a magazine for boys who like other boys (why is this photo of Girls Aloud in it – it doesn’t make sense lol!!)

Have you heard the new Girls Aloud album yet? ‘Out Of Control’, it is called. It’s got a terrible sleeve, but the tunes sheathed beneath the papery exterior are brilliant; easily the best collection of pop songs since, ooh, the last Girls Aloud album.

In essence, it’s more of the same (literally, in the case of ‘The Loving Kind’, which is basically ‘Call The Shots’ Mk II) but with more bells (and keyboards and drums and dub bits and cows) on. Brian Higgins and team continue to craft the sort of ideas-filled pop songs that most bands would chew their hands off for.

'Untouchable' is beyond amazing: a 4am us-against-the-world call to arms that could elicit socially cohesive tears from statues; ‘Rolling Back The Rivers’ sounds like Belle & Sebastian’s ‘Electronic Renaissance’, were that song to go on a Mediterranean booze cruise with Nancy Sinatra’s ‘Somethin’ Stupid’; ‘Love Is The Key’ evokes the Kinks and the Faces trading playful blows over our girls’ affections; ‘Miss You Bow Wow’ gives old favourite ‘Love Machine’ the kitchen sink treatment, while ‘Live In The Country’ ends with ACTUAL ANIMAL NOISES.

Album number five (FIVE) sees Girls Aloud settle once and for all into their position as the greatest girl group this country has ever produced. Make the most of them while they're still around.

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