Sophie Ellis-Bextor: 'Starlight'

"Hold a moment in time/ and look to the skies," Sophie Ellis-Bextor muses on the opening line to her new single 'Starlight'. We'd never have pegged her as a believer in the signs of the Zodiac, but after consulting our manual, Sophie - an Aries - is described as having an adventurous and outgoing personality, with "a wonderful ability to bounce back". Given that her last single missed the Top 100 by some considerable margin, we can only hope such character traits are in fact true.

"No silhouette in my mind/ It's just you and I," she enunciates over simmering synths and '80s-flecked electronic beats as she sings about losing yourself - elegantly, we might add - in the moment. "We are one/ Find us under the starlight/ 'Cause tonight we found heaven in the dark," she continues. The result is a twinkly disco-pop ballad built for al fresco slow-dancing on a summer's evening, delivered the only way Sophie knows how - with utmost sophistication.

Listen to Sophie Ellis-Bextor's new single 'Starlight' below: