Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s making a new album!
I’ve been so out of the loop with this wonderful and pretty British singer. She has confirmed on her website that she has scrapped the idea of a Greatest Hits because she had so much new material, that she is pressing on with a fourth studio album!
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The past year she’s just been mixing up what she’s doing and such and it seems finally, something will materialise. She released her third album “Trip The Light Fantastic” around May last year (FIERCE album), and then announced a tour for it in September. However, Take That, a big band in the UK, asked Sophie to support them on their stadium tour, which was at the same time as her tour was meant to be, so Sophie decided she couldn’t pass up on touring with Take That and postponed tour until March-ish 2008, but was eventually cancelled.
A month later she writes that she won’t tour Trip The Light Fantastic, and would do a Greatest Hits instead to be released in around September ‘07 with a new song or two. Then this supposed greatest hits gets pushed to March 2008. The greatest hits did not materialise in the end. Thank goodness!
Last month she announced they had around 4-5 new tracks and would concentrate on a new album to be released in around September this year. She’s been working with many people as usual, most noticeably Calvin Harris and Groove Armada.
Sophie stated she wanted to do a fourth album and then a greatest hits, and then “change her musical direction.” People would know Sophie does dancey pop stuff, and I guess at age 29=>30, she would want to mature musically. If anything, I reckon her most recent single (but not recent by any means) “Today The Sun’s On Us” from TTLF would shed some light of what she means by changing her musical direction.
Anyhow, since a greatest hits would get a 2009 release, I REALLY hope she does a world tour to end her dance music era. It’s so sad because both her planned tours for her previous TWO albums have been cancelled. =.= And if she doesn’t come to Australia on the next tour, she better make a DVD! I’m just so happy we will get some new music finally, Trip The Light Fantastic was wonderful.
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