Robbie Williams. - Review - sound recording review

Sing When You're Winning (Capitol)

This hard-bodied Brit chart topper and his team have never laid claim to being innovators, just entertainers. They're such unabashed and accomplished musical raiders that by the fifth track, "Kids," Williams's delicious duet with fellow pop tart Kylie Minogue, they've winningly plundered the Beatles, Elton John, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and Gloria Gaynor via Soft Cell. With sharp lyrics, hummable tunes, and lush production, the album shifts through musical styles and provocative imagery like a schizophrenic executing a heavenly K-Tel moment.

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