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List Price: $28.98 | | Label: Universal UK
Salesrank: 106944
Released: May 28, 2007 |
| Our Price: $9.75 |
| Used Price: $5.37 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Trip the Light Fantastic Track Listing:
1. Catch You
2. Me and My Imagination
3. Today the Sun's on Us
4. New York City Lights
5. If I Can't Dance
6. Distance Between Us
7. If You Go
8. Only One
9. Love Is Here
10. New Flame
11. China Heart
12. What Have We Started?
13. Can't Have It All [*]
14. Supersonic [*]
Editorial Review:
UK 14-track pressing of this 2007 album from the former vocalist for '90s hopefuls The Audience includes two bonus tracks, 'Can't Have It All' & 'Supersonic'. 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 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 single, 'Catch You'. Universal.
Trip the Light Fantastic Reviews:
Instance Fan 
2009-03-06 - I really like this album it was the first one that I heard from Sophie Ellis-Bextor and I simply love and I can't wait intil her next album is release.
I love every track on here except for one but the always the case anyway. Ms. Ellis-Bextor has caught me, and made me move to the music even if i can't dance; and pallet for British music soar to supersonic levels. I highly recommend this albumm to everyone.
Great CD but... 
2007-11-08 - Why the high price? I bought this in Europe for the equivalent of $10 after the exchange rate. Import prices don't cost $30.
I love this album
2007-07-25 - Trip the Light Fantastic is a pop masterpiece.
Funk sensations to mirror ball bliss to the best love song I have heard in years: What Have We Started?, which is rivaled by the hopeful Today the Sun's On Us.
Sophie even makes stalking fun: "Run to where you want...I am going to find you...There ain't no distance far enough..There ain't no engine fast enough. I am going to Catch You."
I will be waking up with these songs in my head for weeks.
Supersonic
2007-07-24 - Sophie Ellis has slowly worked her way into what is now a daily play.
She first grabbed my attention with Murder on the Dance Floor and soon after, Mixed Up World. When Catch You hit the play lists, it was exactly what I had hoped for and Supersonic has gone even beyond! I can't stop listening to this song!
More of the same
2007-07-09 - If you've heard one Sophie Ellis-Bextor album, you've heard them all. Mostly- true. Each album has a slightly different feel. "Read My Lips" was disco. "Shoot From the Hip" was more, hmmm experimental? atmospheric? With "Trip the Light Fantastic" she's treading steadily in the middle of the road with solid pop shoes on. More listenable than "Hip" and with more emotional diversity than "Lips", "Trip" delivers exactly the same Sophie vocals. Beautiful, distinct, and sultry - yes, but sadly prone to monotony if the song doesn't provide some strong musical moments.
Some have said that "Supersonic" is the 'worst' song on the album. I like it for providing a different feeling from the rest of the album. The song has energy. Most of the album is made up of synth beats that complement but blend with Sophie's already hypnotic, if not meditative, vocals. "Catch You", "Love is Here", "Only One", "China Heart", and "Today, the Sun's on Us" provide guitars, stanzas, choruses, bridges, and emotional changes in the vocals. They stand out, to me, as stronger songs than the likes of "If I Can't Dance", and "The Distance Between Us" which start with a generic synth sound and after 3 or 4 odd minutes of innocuous vocals you find yourself with no idea of what just passed.
I am a fan and am pleased as punch to have this album. However, I think that Sophie should break out of her shell a little more and take a few more risks with her vocal stylings. Not because I dislike "Lips", "Hip", and "Trip", but we have that sound already. Overall, It's beautiful, a good listen. I could drop a couple of songs but, hey, I liked the ones others didn't, so- Something for everyone I suppose.
"Love is Here" is worth buying the album- This really ought to be a single. "What Have We Started" is gorgeous. It has violins, cymbals, a sort of 'later Abba' rock-pop melody and the best Vocals on the album.
