Feb 2006

The UK's premier girl group's triumphant return to the top of the charts in 2005 was marred by the departure of founding member Mutya, who decided that, after four amazing albums, it was time for her to explore other opportunities. However, it wasn't long before aspiring popstar and long-time fan Amelle Berrabah stepped up to fill Mutya's mighty (and fierce) stilletos.

'Taller In More Ways' finds the girls teaming up with famed hit making producers and writers like Dallas Austin, Brian Higgins, Cathy Dennis and Guy Sigworth. It's an approach that paid dividends, resulting in a collection of contemporary and sophisticated pop classics, with resonating beats, strikingly confessional lyrics and some of the most thrilling vocal performances by the 'Babes, whilst still maintaining their diverse musical influences and experimental sensibilities.

Album highlights include the smash hit electrified single 'Push The Button', the impossibly catchy 'Red Dress', with a thrillingly infectious pop chorus that will burrow into your brain and take up residency for the rest of the year, the empowering anthem 'Ugly', which finds the girls tackling emotional and confessional material with maturity well beyond their years, 'Ace Reject' which serves as the big sister to their classic 'Run For Cover', and a brilliantly seductive reworking of Animotion's 80's classic 'Obsession'. This special repackaged version also incluces an extra brand new song 'Now You're Gone' and reworked versions of 'Gotta Be You' and 'Follow Me Home'

By far, 'Taller In More Ways' is the most accomplished and dynamic album to date by the Sugababes, and looks set to return the girls to the top of the charts for a long time to come.

London pop trio Sugababes displayed grit and determination in overcoming obstacles that would have felled countless others, deftly negotiating three potentially career-threatening line-up changes and being dropped by their first label. Their fusion of contemporary urban beats and classic soul eventually won over fans and label execs alike, and the 'Babes emerged as a hugely successful pop act in the U.K. in the early 2000s. In October 2005, TALLER IN MORE WAYS, the girls' fourth full-length, became their first to top the U.K. album chart.