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Certainly, the New Yorkers' jitters aren't audibly evident on Night Work, which struts where their second stuttered and crams choruses where it blustered. The comeback single Fire With Fire is a brash, chart-seeking missile of a tune: opening as a piano ballad, it soon builds into a sweeping, air-punching, lyrically nonsensical anthem which shares a lot of musical DNA with The Killers' Human (Stuart Price produced both). Imagine U2 on amyl nitrate and you're halfway there.
The vaguely spiritual lyrics and FM gloss of the single turn out to be red herrings, however. Elsewhere, the album bustles with double entendres (in Jake Shears' world, guns are always suggestively shooting and apples being grabbed) backed by squelching, rutting, frivolous disco. A lot of these songs are great fun–the adrenaline shot of the title-track, the slinky Moroder meow of Skin This Cat, the sleazy electro swagger of Harder You Get–but rarely more than that. And on songs like Any Which Way and Something Like That the innuendos become irksome and the kitschy, tongue-in-cheek production becomes pain-in-arse.
When Jake Shears adds soul to the smut, the album is more rewarding. The brooding, melancholic throb of Sex and Violence is a loving homage to gay 80s pop, sounding like the biologically improbable love child of Bronski Beat, Pet Shop Boys and Soft Cell. But the only truly outstanding song is Skin Tight, a wonderfully assured, soaring-chorused love song which sounds like a lost Prince classic.
Night Work is a far livelier and more enjoyable record than Ta-Dah, which was a modest album with much to be modest about. But the nagging sense that Scissor Sisters aren't living up to the promise of their multifaceted, emotionally rich debut is slowly being replaced by the suspicion that they never will.
--Jaime Gill
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Fire With Fire was perhaps a curious choice of the first single, but its a terrifically catchy song and reached No.11 in the UK charts. But the fantastic Any Which Way, which I would have thought should have been the lead-off single, only scraped the lower part of the chart when it was released as a follow up. And then Invisible Light sank without trace! All of these were really good, catchy and enjoyable songs, but fell on fallow ground ...
As a whole, this album is unbeatable in both musical and lyrical quality, and I am still listening to it and enjoying every song on my ipod. If you haven't bought it (and not that many people seem to have done) you can snap it up now at a bargain price and I'm sure you will be playing it forever! Every song is excellent, and I feel the album is better than the debut Scissor Sisters and Ta-Dah!, both of which fared better than this one in the charts.
The songs Whole New Way, Skin Tight, Sex and Violence, Night Work, are bespecially outstanding!
For the price, I was only expecting to get a single.
But to my great delight it was a complete album when it arrived. Read more
Not up to the standard of the first two but I feel it is well worth a listen (especially at the price).
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