All Saints
“One Strike”
Red Flag (04.08 on London Records)
Not gonna lie, writing about All Saints in 2016 feels pretty damn good. Like many other 80s babies, the slinky, London four-piece has a little place in my heart (and high school mixtapes). And while I tend to favor their ballads (i.e. “War of Nerves” and “Never Ever“), the energetic, mid-tempo “One Strike” is a tasty return to form, pairing spectral synths with chunky guitars and their still youthful four-part harmonies. In the last little while, we’ve heard solid comeback tracks from Craig David, members of Sugababes, and now All Saints. All I need are new Take That and Spice Girls songs, and it’ll be 1998 all over again.
