Scissor Sisters' album Night Work deserved to do better. So much better. Despite critical appraise rushing in for it, it failed to set the charts alight in the way the band's debut did back in 2004 - going on to sell millions of copies. You could blame it on changing times and markets, but many agreed that the group's Elton John-esque piano numbers - for all their artistic merit - were just not what the public wanted to buy into.
And so, returning to the fun and flirty glory days of tracks like Filthy/Gorgeous, the group hit the club running with new single Shady Love - accompanied by a brilliantly surreal video (we love the paper-faced Madonnas). It's half Euro-inflected Ibiza club-smash, half WKD's in the air gloss-pop anthem - a terrific return to the band's New York discotheque roots.
Featuring Azealia Banks (hot up and coming star of the moment) on the track too is a stroke of genius, adding to its underground kudos, though quite why she's calling herself Krystal Pepsy here is unbeknownst to us. It sounds like something we'd like to drink though. Perhaps most shocking though is the fact that Jake Shears raps too - and surprisingly, it really works.
Shady Love is a track of so many component parts - all individually brilliant - but together, what they meld themselves into is undoubtedly the pop event of 2012 so far. The Scissor Sisters aren't just back, they're *properly* back... and they mean business. Shady Love - the sound of a future No. 1.
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