Little Mix - Glory Days review: ‘as fun as pop gets in 2016’

The X Factor winners stick to a winning formula on album four
Really rather good: Little Mix are delightfully fierce on their fourth album
John Aizlewood18 November 2016

There were those who suggested 2011 X Factor winners Little Mix would struggle to last four months.

Little Mix - Glory Days

Instead, they’re on their fourth album and, along the way, they’ve cleverly maintained interest by becoming stalwarts of the gossip circuit.

Glory Days mostly sticks to their winning formula. There’s the feisty one in Shout Out To My Ex, which could be read as a kiss off to Perrie Edwards’s one-time amour, ex-One Directioner Zayn Malik; there’s the clattering club anthem in Torch and there’s the predictably ghastly ballad in F.U.

For all that, the foursome have carved out a pop niche for themselves, so the really rather good You Gotta Not and Oops have a finger-clicking Fifties feel and there’s a hint of edge to the delightfully fierce Power.

Little Mix are as fun as pop gets in 2016.

(Columbia)

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