Hailing from Greece, this debut single is Euro pop with a difference. Recorded in LA with Chris Bolden (En Vogue) and Andrea Ramada (Cole and Minogue) and sung by a regular on Greek MTV, it draws its influences from mid-90's house tunes, such as Olive's 'You're Not Alone'.

The overriding theme is bittersweet euphoria, backed by a nightclubbing beat, lyrics from a heart torn apart by defeat and rejection. The synth lines wash over in waves, yearning, with hands in the air searching for redemption, whilst our heroine intones " hit me , hit me harder.....I'll turn the other cheek .... I've not got much to lose".

It is a thing of beauty, gently addictive and bound to fill dance floors in Club 18-30 land, but deserves much better.

Ilia is let down only by the rather timid production. What could have been an ENORMOUS track is left struggling in the slipstream, trying to pull itself back into the starry firmament of immortal club anthems.

Still brilliant, still shining. Brightness and darkness fall in deep romance.