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Product Description ------------------- 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 ------ 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 Find more music at the BBC ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/syn//albumreviews/-/music/ ) This link will take you off in a new window P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Artist ---------------- 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'! See more ( javascript:void(0) )