Although being suitably taken by her vocal prowess, your reviewer largely felt slightly underwhelmed by Wicklow girl-in-waiting TARA BLAISE'S debut album "Dancing On Tables Barefoot", not least because a lot of the ear candy on display was rather too sickly and glossy for his liking.
However, album opener "The Three Degrees" was always one of the jewels in the crown, so its' release - in funked-up, remixed and danceable garb - makes sense, especially as this version (with input from remixers The Animal Farm) is indeed the very essence of 'bouncy' as a result.
To recap, then, "The Three Degrees" is one of those great, those-were-the-days-of-our-lives reminiscences shot through with Ms.Blaise's suitably coquettish vocals and memories of inhibitions thrown over against the backdrop of Giorgio Moroder's famous disco diva charges. On this occasion, producer/ co-writer John Hughes gets the subtle sonic distractions (wah-wah, piano, subtle stabs of organ) just right and the whole confection will sound pretty droolsome on a radio near you.
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So while I'm still at loggerheads with chunks of the album, I must confess this one does the seductive business very nicely indeed. "The Three Degrees" is sussed and well-heeled pop at its' best.
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