★★★★★
The running joke was that a successful UK girl group would never again emerge from a reality TV show. In a world where Girls Aloud were a one-in-a-million success story, each successive year of The X Factor saw band after band voted off, leaving viewers to shake their heads and lament voting habits and a public apparently unwilling to buy into the idea of a bunch of girls all getting on together.
And then came Little Mix - The X Factor's last hurrah. And how wonderful they were...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-11-11
★★★★★
The sophomore full-length album from Little Mix, 2013's Salute, showcases the British all-girl group's bright, high-energy pop music. The album follows up the former X Factor champions' 2012 debut, DNA. Once again, this album features the vocal talents of Little Mix members Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and Jade Thirlwall...
- www.allmusic.com
2013-11-21
★★★★★
Little Mix followed up their 2011 X Factor victory with a surprisingly good debut that seemed aimed squarely at filling the void left by Girls Aloud's hiatus (one song was even co-written by Nicola Roberts). The follow-up starts off promisingly, the title track press-ganging every military cliche to hand (sirens! A Last Post pastiche! "Your country needs you!" Bellows of "Atten-shun"...
- www.theguardian.com
2013-11-10
★★★★★
For those who long for pop before it became complex ... Little Mix. Photograph: Rex/Newspix Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Little MixSaluteSyco2013 X Factor winners release debut album and enjoy immediate chart success: the Little Mix backstory is, indeed, pretty dull...
- www.theguardian.com
2013-11-08
★★★★★
We didn't know how lucky we were. In five short years, we've fallen from the Sugababes and Girls Aloud to the Saturdays and Little Mix.
The debut from last year's X Factor winners is packed with vague, uplifting homilies about staying strong, being in love and so on. The main duty of pop is to be catchy, and it's a duty which DNA mostly shirks miserably. T-Boz from TLC, who guests, must be wondering how girl pop went from CrazySexyCool to BoringSexlessNaff.
- www.independent.co.uk
2012-12-14
★★★★★
Considering even JLS and One Direction couldn't do it, Little Mix must have something pretty special to become the first group to win The X Factor.
But with the show's runners-up increasingly outperforming champions, a win could well be construed as the proverbial albatross. So as Little Mix step out on their own, they can no longer rely on emotive VTs or Tulisa making tactical pleas to the viewership - their debut album DNA needs to be able to cut it...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2012-12-14
★★★★★
Photo: KER-CHING! Well-timed cash-in time! X Factor final approaching! Christmas shopping! Parents of England - suspend your cynicism and head to Andy's Records, or wherever it is that the kids get their music from these days. For every One Direction, JLS or Olly Murs there's a (vomit) Leon Jackson, Joe McElderry or Rhydian...
- www.gigwise.com
2012-11-19
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Little MixDNASyco2012 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album There's serious pop pedigree behind this debut album from last year's X...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-11-17
Loading...
