Handbag Heaven: Against All Odds

The Almighty dance series are back with this offering from their stable. A two disc album bursting with cover versions and dubious dancefloor rehashes of some well known hits. There are twelve songs on the first disc then a twenty two track megamix on disc two. The album is titled 'Against All Odds' so maybe there's a Phil Collins tie in somewhere... We begin with a heavily vocodered version of Keane's 'Somewhere Only We Know.' The female vocal is alright if not underwhelming, but the song is just so laborious and despairing, it really does not have enough lift to make me want to play it twice. 'My Heart Will Go On' is slightly better, this kind of ...  Read the complete review