The title and cover of Kim Wilde’s 15th studio album are a neat move. Embracing Close, the sleeve recreates the 1988 album’s arms-across-theface cover shot. For anyone unaware of its predecessor’s heritage, Closer simply suggests intimacy as a title and the cover is still a great pose for Wilde to strike.
While Closer is as eclectic as Close in being an instant Best Of for Wilde’s talents, that doesn’t mean she’s simply rattling out 10 songs resembling that album’s big hits such as You Came (No.3), Never Trust A Stranger (No.7) and Four Letter Word (No.6). Instead, Closer is mature yet still excitable and exciting pop, merged with the extraterrestrial existential questions that Wilde posed on her previous album, 2018’s Here Come The Aliens.