(Polydor)Coming from a member of one of the most forward-looking pop acts of the 21st century, Messy Little Raindrops feels curiously dated. It's one thing for Cheryl Cole to honour fashion's ludicrous obsession with the bad-taste 1980s on the sleeve, but several songs might as well have been recorded in that decade, too. Which isn't to say that Raindrops, The Flood or Hummingbird sound retro-hip; instead they are musically perfunctory, their lacklustre quality exacerbated by Cole's weakness as ...
Guardian Music — (Polydor)Coming from a member of one of the most forward-looking pop acts of the 21st century, Messy Little Raindrops feels curiously dated. It's one thing for Cheryl Col... more info
Guardian Music — (Polydor)Such is the overbearing nature of Cole's celebrity it's difficult for her music to feel anything other than beside the point. Messy Little Raindrops has margina... more info