t.A.T.u. – 'Friend Or Foe' (Interscope) Released 06/02/06

Pop-art punks t.A.T.u used to be bigger than Jesus - but the girls have now been tragically reduced to working with the unholy trinity of Dave Stewart, Sting and Bryan Adams. Arguably the decade’s most inflammatory band, the girls have fatally ditched the controversy in order to atone for their sins at the corporate altar. The results are predictably lamentable, although 'Friend Or Foe' is rescued from total futility by its lyric detailing the duo’s relationship descent into paranoid disrepair. They desperately need to re-employ their creator Ivan Shapovalov. His last project, NATO, featured a burkha-clad 16-year-old girl singing Uzbeki folk songs, whilst ‘paramilitaries’ fired paint-ball guns into the audience. Now that’s entertainment.