DOTMUSIC:CHANGING FACES REVIEW

Perv's favourite and footballer's wife Louise Nurding first came to the public's attention in 1993 as part of Eternal. The first UK girl group to clock up more than a handful of hits since Bananarama, they were extremely successful for a while, in a pre-Spice Girls kinda way.

Their original line-up was also spookily zeroxed by All Saints, especially complimented by the Bennet/Appleton sisters dynamic. Brrr. That was until the cracks started to show, leading to Louise's decision to quit the band in 1995.

Anyway, this 'Best Of' includes three of Eternal's best hits ('Stay', 'Just A Step From Heaven' and the soft'n'lovely 'Oh Baby'), making up the numbers on this, Louise's farewell package to EMI. From her first solo single, the quite decent writhing-on-black-sand-tastic ballad 'Light Of My Life', through to her ill-advised cover of 'Stuck In The Middle With You', Louise has traded mainly on the market of inoffensive lottery-pop, slightly sauced-up by her appearances in gentlemen's magazine.

For every top moment like 'Undivided Love' and the frankly ace Wu-Tang sampling 'Beautiful Inside', there's a fairly duff fourth-single-off-album vibe about the likes of 'In Walked Love' and 'All That Matters'. Having said that, Louise's worst is notches above some of the 'best' of certain solo Spice efforts.

So if you enjoy the pop trash of 'Naked' or the clickin' boogie of '2 Faced' or even the pleasant enough run throughs of Average White Band's 'Let's Go Round Again' and the, yikes, revival of Five Star's 'The Slightest Touch', 'Changing Faces' is a good little pop collection.

Whether the charms of Louise will endure and make it to a second volume though, is debatable.