Over the years, Sophie Ellis-Bextor has proven to be one of our favorite popstars. Not only is the woman drop-dead gorgeous, but she has a terribly keen sense of picking excellent pop singles.
She's currently promoting her forthcoming album, Straight to the Heart, due in August, and she's got two cracking singles currently "making the rounds".
One of them is "Can't Fight This Feeling", which sees her as a featured vocalist with French DJ Junior Caldera. It reminds us of your standard '90s club jam and is packed with a killer, straight-for-the-jugular chorus. It is a fantastically gay three and a half minutes.
(excuse the rather naff video)
Then we have "Bittersweet", which is the official lead-off track from her album. Produced by the Freemasons (who, as you'll remember, worked with her on "Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer)", one of our top 20 songs of 2009), "Bittersweet" is essentially everything you've come to expect from such a collaboration. Freemasons throw in their typical brand of thudding '80s house sounds, Sophie sounds as posh and disinterested as ever, and really it's just spectacular (if slightly unremarkable...but in the business of pop, unremarkability isn't always the key).
(we personally like the radio edit more than the Freemasons remix, but that's just us)
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