Gossip: A Joyful Noise – review

(Columbia)Appointing Xenomania's Brian Higgins to oversee A Joyful Noise could be read as Gossip deciding that, while critical acclaim is all very nice, a hit would come in handy, too. To many, the Oregon threesome are a one-song band, and the longer they go without a tune to match 2007's Standing in the Way of Control, the more niche they become. So if the roaring electro-punk of their last album, Music for Men, preached only to the converted, this time it's Girls Aloud producer Higgins to the ...

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