Rating: 3/5
Verdict: New York glam poppers maintain the fruitiness
Did Jake Shears- the male diva in the Scissor Sisters - always sound so much like Robbie Williams? Or is it just on new song Fire With Fire, which could be one of the British brat's forgotten hits.
Although Fire With Fire gets the Scissor Sisters' camp oonst treatment, it doesn't stop it from being a blase glitch on a fun, sometimes sentimental, and typically saucy album.
On the New Yorkers' self-titled 2004 debut, with songs like Take Your Mama - and on 2006's Ta-Dah album to a lesser extent - the Scissor Sisters gave pop music a healthy shock of stylishly sleazy and cheeky songs. And it's been a while between albums, but what they've come up with on Night Work is late-night party pop.
Any Which Way hams it up with a disco house beat, guest vocals from Kylie, and a Herbie Hancock funk jazz twang - and it's the song most representative of the clenched buttocks on the album cover.
While songs like Fire With Fire and Skin Tight are a little overwrought, the latter gives way to the pulse and lather of Sex and Violence, the first of three songs that brings the album to a swingin' end. Included in this finale is the tribal house-meets-Pet Shop Boys last track, Invisible Light, with an inspired spoken word guest spot from Sir Ian McKellen.
