Icona Pop - This is Icona Pop
This may have been a little preemptive. The act of supporting a popstar (or two, in this case) from their very grassroots level can lead to a lot of misfires, premature excitement and confusion, and the release of their self-titled debut in 2012 was - one would have naturally assumed - to be their proper debut. But no, after months of trying, I Love It became the hit it should have been from the start, and has now found Aino Jawo and Caroline Hjelt scrapping the old one (released just in Sweden) and setting about an international debut. There is a bit of cheek, though, in recycling three tracks from that album onto here. I appreciate that for many, this will be their first introduction to We Got the World or Ready for the Weekend (and how magnificent those introductions will be), but it does feel a little bit cheap. Let's just hope the eight new songs somehow match up. Also, a more creative album title wouldn't have hurt, girls :( So yeah, first of all there's ...