Sweeping The Nation Albums Of 2008: Numbers 50-41
50 Sons And Daughters - This Gift Does pop suit the grimy dominatrix of Scotpop sound of Sons Daughters? Bernard Butler evidently thought so, and while a switch into musical sweetness and light - the lyrics are as chiding as ever - doesn't bring entirely comfortable results with it, you still wouldn't trust Adele Bethel with anything of value. It's pop of a sort that would only have troubled the charts in about 1983, of course, but the connections with classic girl-fronted pop go further than
