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In 2010 Scissor Sisters announced their comeback with Invisible Light, a six-minute long, Stuart Price-produced Pet Shop Boys-esque dance comedown featuring Sir Ian McKellen. It was a taster for Night Work, an album that was a critical success but sold only a fraction of what their first two LPs had done. The filtered disco and electro-pop immediacy was still in evidence, but people seemed to have passed caring. All this makes Shady Love – the first single to be taken from their as yet untitled fourth album – all the more surprising. Perhaps they've given up on trying to please the people who bought their first two albums, or perhaps they thought they could use this commercial lull as the perfect opportunity to experiment. So out goes Gandalf and Stuart Price and in strides one half of Boyz Noise on cowriting duties and Krystal Pepsy aka Azealia Banks who, rather than rapping (that's left to frontman Jake Shears), sings throughout. Structurally it's not that dissimilar to Banks's 212, with a similar rise and fall throughout and a proper bass drop that announces the chorus. Although Shears's rapping recalls Madonna circa American Life, it somehow works perfectly.