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The Saturdays "On Your Radar" album

- Release date : November 2011 -

On Your Radar is the third full-length studio album by British-Irish pop girl-group The Saturdays. The album was released 21 November 2011 under Fascination Records.

"Our new album’s going to be a lot sexier than our old one, it’s definitely a different sound, we’re really excited about it, We’ve all grown up a bit now and that shows. It’s also a lot more R&B than anything we’ve done before, it’s a very cool. Every time I think about the new single Notorious it makes me want to dance." - Vanessa White

On Your Radar debuted at number forty-three in the Irish Albums Chart, a major drop from their previous release, Headlines!, which reached number ten. While all previous albums peaked within the Top 10 in the United Kingdom, On Your Radar charted at number 23 with sales of 18,044 units, thus becoming the band's lowest charting album to date in the UK.

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"At the minute, there is quite a lot of dance music around and I think that's reflected on the album," Saturdays member Mollie King recently told us - and with girl groups more than struggling in the charts at the moment, who can blame them for wanting to hop on the nearest bandwagon and follow the latest genre-du-jour?

A well-executed example of this is the feisty and hi-NRG trailer 'All Fired Up', while 'Notorious' continues to highlight the girls' newfound enthusiasm for slipping on a pair of Louboutins and hitting the dancefloor. As far as introductions go, it appears their ear for a club thumper was sharper than we first anticipated.

As such, we'll admit that latest single 'My Heart Takes Over' - a glowing ballad sweeter than a Starbucks Praline Mocha - took us by surprise; and even more so when sandwiched awkwardly between the heavily processed 'Faster' and camp, Euro-friendly 'Get Ready, Get Set'.

Travie McCoy hook-up 'The Way You Watch Me' is an urban-funk composition of modish guitars and '60s riffs that, despite being a highlight, fails to set the tone throughout. Elsewhere, their initial energy soon starts to wane at the back-end, particularly on generic mid-tempo 'For Myself' and R&B warbler 'Wish I Didn't Know'. The result is a jumble sale of hits and misses which, unfortunately, sees the girls' identity slip steadily off the radar.

*** by Lewis Corner, Digital Spy ***