Following on from the runaway success of comeback single ‘Catch You’, Sophie Ellis-Bextor returns with a new single and album. ‘Me And My Imagination’ is set to be the first big dance track of the summer when it is released digitally on May 7th. Sophie’s third album ‘Trip The Light Fantastic’ will follow on May 21st. Both will be released through Fascination Records.Sophie worked with some of pop’s finest names on the album – from Cathy Dennis, who penned the lead single, to Fred Schnieder from The B52s and Dan Gillespie Sells from The Feeling and Xenomania.‘Trip the Light Fantastic’ is, says Sophie, “an invitation to dance”. There’s back references to her Ibiza days in the sun on new single ‘Me And My Imagination’, a winking disco trot powered by twirling violins and a dizzyingly house groove, which Sophie says is the track most easily reconciled with anything on her million selling debut ‘Read My Lips’. Elsewhere, it’s the sound of the House of Ellis-Bextor but with a series of modern twists. ‘New York City Lights’ sounds like Kraftwerk introduced to guitars, immersed in the other worldliness of Scandanavian pop from Abba to A-Ha. ‘ If You Go’ sees Xenomania push a sunny samba rhythm behind Sophie’s perfectly precise vocals. ‘Trip The Light Fantastic’ sounds like Sophie Ellis-Bextor knows where she really belongs – dragging us unto the dancefloor and running amok in big frocks. “I love the cartoony, bigger than life side of what I do. Pop music should be about extremes and a day glow version of reality. Who wants the mundane? It’s boring. Bring on the sparkly stuff please.”
