'Trip The Light Fantastic' is the third album by pop icon Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Featuring production from The B-52's Fred Schnieder and backing vocals supplied by Dan Gillespie Sells of The Feeling, the album is a collection of feel-good yet raunchy pop songs, reminiscent of the work of Girls Aloud. Includes the singles 'Catch You' and 'Me And My Imagination'.

Jan 2007

It's been a while but anyone with a taste for cool pop tracks, hooky choruses and a distinctive British accent will remember/ love/ idolise Sophie Ellis-Bextor. She's morphed from sharp-suited indie princess in The Audience to Ibiza dance diva with 'Groovejet' before giving dance a her own unique take with brilliant tracks like 'Murder On The Dancefloor', 'Music Gets The Best Of Me', 'Get Over You', 'Take Me Home', 'Mixed Up World' and 'I Won't Change You'. All of which emerged from two classic albums, 'Read My Lips' and 'Shoot From The Hip'.

Sophie's long-awaited third solo album arrives after a life-changing break during which she married Richard Jones, bassist with The Feeling and gave birth to her son, Sonny. 'Trip The Light Fantastic' sees her on sparkling form – she says of the album, "it's an invitation to dance!" Having worked with some of pop's finest names on the album – Cathy Dennis, Fred Schnieder from The B52s, Dan Gillespie Sells from The Feeling and Xenomania, 'Trip The Light Fantastic' includes the classic-in-the-making new single, 'Catch You'.

The daughter of former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis, Sophie Ellis Bextor had her first brush with fame with the guitar pop outfit, Theaudience, fame in 1997. Ellis Bextor's career took a left-turn after the demise of the band, as her next record became the choice dance music cut of 2000. Spiller's "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" originated as an instrumental, a sunny Italian house track, but the addition of a vocal line co-written by Ellis Bextor gave the track an irresistible feel-good hook. Follow up, disco-inflected singles "Take Me Home" and "Murder On The Dancefloor", both reached the UK Top 5 as did her debut solo full-length READ MY LIPS. After the relative failure of the follow-up, 2003s SHOOT FROM THE HIP, Bextor took some time out from the music industry but returned reinvigorated with the single "Catch You" in February 2007 and her third album, TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC later that year.