Eye Candy

As described happy with purchase

Bought for strawberrez but my dad loves it

I love misteeq

As expected

Following on from the success of their debut, Lickin' On Both Sides, Sabrina, Alesha and Su-Elise a.k.a Mis-teeq have returned with Eye Candy, an absolute scorcher. Mis-teeq made their fortune as the Queens of Garage, and now they've progressed to bring UK R'n'B to a new level - and they're just as good as the Americans! My Song isn't the best opening to the album. It's not too good, but Scandalous comes straight after this heap of mediocrity, so it sounds even better than usual! The number two single is a slick slice of r'n'b, the video's great, Alesha's emceeing is great - the song is great! The next two songs - Can't Get It Back and Dance Your Cares Away are much the same. Fast-flowing r'n'b dance, and the girls show they've kept their old attitude on Can't Get It Back especially. Plus, there's a section on Dance Your Cares Away where you'll find the coolest music ever - it's like some sort of techno pop, and it rules! You'll see what I mean. All In One Day and Strawberrez are a bit dull to be quite honest. They are overly sugary - the girls did these kinda songs great on Lickin' (see These Days), but hear, they're pants. Nitro is the follow up to this where the girls are aiming to silence their critics. It will (hopefully) be a future single. The beats are spiky, you can dance to it, and it's the perfect blend of Alesha's emceeing and Sabs and Su's singing. Home Tonight (featuring Joe) follows. A slow song, but it's OK. Just OK. Do Me Like That - not the most memorable song on the album, I don't like it too much. A bit boring. That's Just Not Me (featuring Baby Cham) is the next song, and quite possibly the best on the album. It's a song best saved for sunny days, it has a reggae tinge to it, and the girls' vocals are as smooth as silk. Fantastic. How Does It Feel is possibly the most garage-influenced song on the track, and is reminiscent of former single B With Me. It's about a guy who's a bit of a player, and the girls are setting him straight. It's a great song. Best Friends and It's Beginning To Feel Like Love suffer are OK. Best Friends is one I listen to from time to time, but nowhere near as infectious as That's Just Not Me or Nitro by any means. It's Beginning To Feel Like Love is too sugary again, and suffers from the same things as Strawberrez - dullness. Two of the best tracks wind up the album. Eye Candy is absolutely amazing. The beginning background music is awesome, and Alesha goes into proper Lil' Kim rap mode! She sounds fantastic, and the chorus is totally awesome. You'll be singin' it in no time! The last song. Now, each girl does a verse in this song - Just For You - which is accompanied by a fab chorus and hypnotising music. Alesha is great, Sabrina's emceeing is surprisingly good, but it is Su-Elise who will blow you away. She has an extraordinarily deep emceeing voice, and if you've ever doubted her, she's gonna shock a few people! More Su-Elise, please! Overall, the great songs on this album are fantastic, but the not-so-great ones won't make your eardrums bleed. They're just not as good as the other songs. Eye Candy is a brilliant sophomore album, and the girls'll carry on for years to come - lets face it, the UK urban scene needs people like them! Roll on the next single, and well done girls! Oh, and buy it!

Mis-teeq. A group synonymous with the Garage scene, highlighted by their winning numerous awards for best garage act in the last 18 months. But they're not. The garage beat has been restrained for the second album, but not at the expense of hi-energy tunes, 'Nitro', and 'Eye Candy' attest to that. It's just that, as with a lot of urban acts at the mo, they have ditched two-step for a more commercial, R&B sound. Lisa Maffia's new single is in the same vein, standing on an equal footing with the best the US has to offer, beats and harmonies alike.The album is filled with amazing tunes, club bangers with HEAVY beats as well as ballads that put more established groups to shame with their originality and cohesiveness. The eastern flow of 'Just For You,' the sultry sound of 'Can't Get It Back', amazing Miami base sound from NOWHERE on 'Day Off,' to the simply gorgeous mellow tones of '...To Feel Like Love' show they were SO much more than a garage cash-in that single 'Why' might have suggested in 2001. THEN, their uniqueness is definitely provided by the ferocious chats of Alisha, keeping the underground feel alive on the dancehall-lite 'Do Me Like That,' catapaulting this album and Mis-teeq alike to diva status. They have carved out their own sound in a very competitive market, doing it good and proving they're much more than just eye candy.Tunes - Nitro Can't Get It Back That's Just Not Me Beginning To Feel Like Love Just For You

One of the saddest days for music this century came when the then-not-long-for-this-world Melody Maker used a fake piccie of a poohing Craig David as the cover to their issue arguing that UK garage was pushing all the innovative, worthwhile and exciting records (Placebo, presumably) out of the charts. We always found that a little dubious to say the least, but the last two years have made it more laughable than anything else; after all, since then we've heard one of the most leftfield number one singles ever in the form of '21 Seconds', gone slightly stupid over albums from The Streets and Ms Dynamite, and now been introduced to this. Sure beats the Stereophonics, eh...?Not that 'Eye Candy' is a wholly garage affair (probably for the best, really - do we need any more MJ Cole / Artful Dodger-style letdowns?), although when it prowls down familiar two-step paths it does so with a surplus of style and no little imagination - see, for instance, how 'All In One Day' incorporates dancehall passages, latino instrumentation and an old-skool soul breakdown. And, if there's that much happening on one of the fifteen tracks here, imagine what a smorgasbord the entire album is. The opening of 'My Song' might be reminiscent of the conceit of TLC's previous benchmark 'Fanmail', but from there on in it's left turns all the way, thwacking easternised beats onto a technoid pulse in 'Do Me Like That', stitching up Greek and wah guitars, hula singing and ridiculous scratchadelia over clicky time signatures on 'How Does It Feel', and coming on like a really rude Kraftwerk throwing a party in Marrakesh on 'Just For You'. And it's got 'Scandalous' on as well, which is about as perfect as any hit record this year's liable to get.Plus! Harmonically it's a thing of beauty from every angle too, stopping wisely short of En Vogue-ian excess at all times (even on the more sleeve-hearted likes of 'Home Tonight'), and, as you might expect, Radiohead it isn't but Mis-Teeq have still got more than enough to say for themselves, asserting themselves at every available opportunity while keeping more than one eye on their heritage; and yes, the notion of Alesha, Su-Elise and Sabrina From The Block still makes sense even if, musically, they're putting the J-Los of the world in the shade. Oh, and, like Andrew W.K., they get wet several times in the course of the album, and they even manage to quote Public Enemy on 'Can't Get It Back', and it's not every record you can say that about, is it? 'Eye Candy', then: sweet as you like, and irrefusably tasty to behold. Indulge away...