All Saints

Much better than you would think

Review Score:

(10/10)
I'm surprised by the lack of reviews- and good ones- for this album, seeing as other pop records by Dido and Craig David get billions of reviews. Anyway this record is much better than you would think, I'm not usually a big fan of pop music, my brother got this CD back in 1997, after leaving it behind when he left for university I sampled it and was pleasently surprised by the music actually.
The All Saints are very local for me - Nicole Appleton used to live in my road, but unfortunately has since moved away from Belsize Park-
Although they have been compared to the spice girls, that comparison is out of order- they're actually a lot more like Oasis being part of the mid-nineties cool Britannia movement . Firstly, the spicegirls are from the North of England, not London. The Spice girls are well ugly, whereas the All Saints are very fit. And finally the All Saints music is alright, the spice girls music is not alright.
About the music, as I said I was pleasently surprised.Being a piano player with perfect pitch,at college at the moment, I usually listen to 'serious music' -modern jazz, classical music a little rap music, I was impressed by the album. It uses some interesting harmonies in some places, the drummer lays down -more cool than in most pop music- beats, and the singing is high quality and the song writings ok especially on 'Never Ever'-which is the best cut is more like a poem at first evolves into a very nice song which uses the chord progressions of 'amazing grace'. I found a website on this actually:
I've only heard there most recent album-Sinners and Saints on MTV but it sounds even better actually so I recommend it as well.
To conclude, the All Saints -unfortunately recently split- deserve much more respect and attention than they get, as far as pop music goes they are the most musically sophisticated and also the best looking band there is.

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