Congas,swirling strings,passionate backing chorus,throbbing bass... it must be Vicki Sue Robinson!
it is really a pleasure to encounter album recorded in the golden age of disco,the original artifact - not just some nostalgic pastiché,but the real thing - and surely Robinson's mid-1970s LPs are joy.
The album starts strongly with one-to punch of "Daybreak" and "Should I stay" medley following right after,two irresistible dance-floor stompers with some backing choruses almost frightening in their intensity. If you ask me,I would continue album in the same style and had it filled with celebratory dance songs completely,alas,someone has decided that we need ballads here so ballads we got and they are - there's no way to put it nicely - simply boring.Everything that sounds original and passionate on disco numbers is just mannered and annoying on ballads.
Robinson's disco albums all share same characteristics - songs are either hands-in-the-air disco affairs or agonizingly slow and overlong ballads. Skip the ballads and go for disco.
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