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Album reviews: Fizz find strength in some mighty numbers

Four solo artists from Britain and Ireland make the most of their combined skill in The Secret to Life, one of this year’s best pop offerings

Fizz, a supergroup of sorts made up of pop songwriter-performers from Britain and Ireland, have come up with one of this year’s best pop records

Fizz, The Secret to Life (Decca)

We need more albums like The Secret to Life, a collection of songs from not so much a supergroup (so-called) as a motley crew who have poured their respective pop skills into the largest receptacle they could find and then jumped into it to splash around. All too appropriately named, Fizz (which features British songwriters Dodie, Greta Isaac and Martin Luke Brown plus Irish counterpart Orla Gartland) came about ...