I would just like to say that Heidi may aswel be an original. After The sugababes first album One Touch, London Records dropped the band because only 1 single out of 4 that were released only made top 10. Overload-6, New Year-12, Run for Cover-13, Soul Sound-30. The band only started getting real success when Heidi Joined the band and the were signed to Island/Universal

Ok where are these critically aclaimed reviews? I've looked and couldn't find them, I thought 1.0 were great but I hate it when people keep bringing up $h!t that 1.0 were so critacally acclaimed.

Further proof that the major labels think American kids are stupid: The Sugababes debut album arrives on these shores with dubiously glossed-up cover art and a drastic MTV make-over for the unusually credible teenage threesome. Never mind, the music on One Touch still remains vital and raw; like a downtown version of TLC or All Saints without the gargantuan studio budget. Lead-off track "Overload" is a pulsating, cool-headed R&B concoction, while the title track sounds more deep, down and dirty than anything that has appeared on pop radio in recent memory. Scour the import bins for the original unfiltered version. Other girl groups will look utterly lightweight in comparison.

Great pop is all in the detail. A great hook, a great look and a great gimmick can all help, but at the end of the day the difference between great pop and the seemingly endless pop conveyor belt of Record Co. Inc. in West London is an elusive thing? Great pop is harder to make than great rock, great indie, great dance... great anything, but when Sugababes sulked on to Saturday morning kids TV a few months ago with the 'no-smiles, no dancing, no-smiling, no sh*t' non-performance that was 'Overload', the birth of an important pop band was posted in all the right places.

Siobhan, Mutya and Keisha - a great hand in a game of Scrabble - are a pop trio so young that bumping into label-mates All Saints at London Records must be like bumping into your mum down the shops on Saturday morning when you're with your mates. The music? Oh the music is just magnificent. Sugababes sing like angels - angels who've earned their wings listening to TLC and SWV not the Spice Girls.

'Overload' was the most extraordinary debut pop single since Fine Young Cannibal's 'Johnny Come Home' - a twisted, pumped up stripped down pop song thats attention to detail - the now obligatory sound of a dust-laden stylus, the bass note rising on the intro as the snare kicks in, the bonkers guitar solo and the angst ridden tale of school girl lust - marked it out as the year's most original pop hit single by a city mile.

And there's plenty more where that came from. Using a backing band who appreciate that an acoustic guitar will always be more effective than a Vocoder, that jazz chords compliment sweet vocals - especially so when they are this sweet - 'One Touch' will terrify the competition. The fact that this is only stage one in the trio's plan for pop world domination makes it doubly impressive.

By the time the acoustic latin thrum of 'Just Let It Go', which puts Craig David's own impressive unplugged performances of 'Seven Days' to shame, grinds itself into your brain, it's clear that these girls aren't looking to usurp Atomic Kitten or S Club 7. Hell, they've got TLC at their best in their sights and nothing less will do. Gotcha.

'Look At Me' will probably be the last time Sugababes can claim to be daddy's little girls - a sweet anthem to a life they are already fast leaving behind, while 'One Touch' arrives courtesy of the coolest jazz guitar intro of the new millennium and a call to kick off the past and move on up - brilliant, smouldering stuff.

If it's more straight ahead funky soul you're after then we got that too. 'Real Thing' harks back to classic 80s jazz funk and leads us neatly into 'Overload''s follow up, and the very the seasonal 'New Year'. Not as wired or skewed as the debut, but amusingly adding that old stylus again, this sweet Xmas single simply shows how well these girls can sing - not shout, not dance - sing. It won't knock Westlife off top spot at the end of December but it shows they can compete on more than one level.

'One Touch' is being released very early on in Sugababes' career. Chances are some of you out there still haven't heard much of the girls. You will. At the risk of giving them the musical equivalent of shin-splints by putting them in the first team too early, this record announces the arrival of potentially one of the most important new groups for many years. If they carry on singing this well, we'll even forgive them for not talking to us!

I would just like to say that Heidi may aswel be an original. After The sugababes first album One Touch, London Records dropped the band because only 1 single out of 4 that were released only made top 10. Overload-6, New Year-12, Run for Cover-13, Soul Sound-30. The band only started getting real success when Heidi Joined the band and the were signed to Island/Universal