Little Mix // Salute

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It’s been a year since Little Mix released their debut DNA and they seem to have been everywhere, you might wonder when they had the time to record a new LP. So what is Salute?

Opening with the title track, it suitably starts with warning sirens, a burgle call and in general, a very military feel before moving into the first single offering off the album in the form of Move. From this, we move to track that samples Faure’s Pavane, but don’t worry, it’s not a classical track (they’re not the first to do it with this classical piece. S club 7 and Sweetbox did it before them!). No, Little Me is literally the girls wanting to go back and tell their younger selves to speak up. Nothing Feels Like You brings a bit of urban street carnival to the album (complete with a bit of double dutch at the start)

Towers is the first real ballad to the album and showcases the delicate side of the girls but also their harmonies. A Justin Timberlake-esque feeling comes to the album with Competitions before returning to a fragile ballad in These Four Walls constructed of emotional lyrics, piano and strings. About The Boy brings us back to the sort of sound we heard earlier in the album from Move.

Boy opens with an a capella section from the girls before heading into the third ballad on the album Good Enough. Mr Loverboy has a bit of a 90s feel to it though it reminds us of another tracks from that era who’s name escapes us. Finally, the album comes full circle with A Different Beat returning to the military sound heard back at the start with Salute.

If we were to look at DNA, it seems that it may have been a bit of trial and error whilst Salute seems to have found the girls with a sound that suits them. It gives a bit of a mature sound to the girls and in a sense, it seems to be well planed track wise. There are, as with most albums, tracks that will take time to grow, however, it feels like a solid little number from the girls

Rating 4/5