Twenty tracks by Celine Dion! To what do we owe such fortune? Not that you’d think it was her: on this new record the usual yodelling power ballads have been largely swapped out for an eclectic menu of every genre in the dictionary.
There is the the Ibiza-lite Flying On My Own — camp, over the top and set to a thrusting EDM beat — and the acoustic-pop Baby, co-written by pop’s eccentric-in-chief, Sia (Sam Smith is another collaborator on the record).
Lovers Never Die starts like a vintage Christina Aguilera song — rich, soaring, intense — before seguing into a bit of R&B which no one saw coming, while on The Chase, things take a turn for the folky.
Still, as a ride, it’s certainly not boring.
