Almost a year on, I am puzzled by the muted commercial success of this outstanding album by the Scissor Sisters. It just seemed to receive little airplay, on radio, tv and in clubs too, so across the board really.
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!