Written for Kurrent Music
Published March 20th 2016
All Saints are picking up the pace of their comeback. I feel like it was only yesterday when they released their first single since 2006, “One Strike”, but that was a whole month ago. So the girls thought a new track was what we needed. They were right. Sometimes, you just don’t know what you need until you get it.
With “One Strike”, All Saints dropped a bit of a quiet storm.It’s a bit of a style for the girls to have these tracks, like “Black Coffee” and “Pure Shores” for instance, that sound so effortless. I think that they continued that with “One Strike”, which was the greatest strategic move for them, because it made us realize why All Saints are missed in today’s music.
The lyrical side to “One Strike” is a definite strike at former Oasis man, Liam Gallagher, whom married Nicole Appleton and then cheated on her. Their divorce has been a clear source of inspiration to All Saints’ music. It seems to also continue on “One Woman Man”, which clearly states the disillusion of a woman realizing her man will never be a one woman man.