Our favourite debutantess of dance Wynter Gordon is out to make a killing with her spirited debut – With The Music I Die – and if Dirty Talk was all you had to go by, this should be a very pleasant surprise.

Wynter Gordon has been the celebrated talk of the music blogosphere long before Dirty Talk swallowed up the Australian charts and amassed triple platinum sales last summer.

This debut album has definitely been a long time coming for fans who have followed her since the Myspace-era circa Surveillance (which unfortunately doesn’t make an appearance on the album), slowly seeing the American singer/songwriter establish herself in the dance world. She has been signed for five years, so you can imagine the journey she has been on.

Everything Wynter had gone through in the last two or three years has led us to this point, and With The Music I Die feels like a weathered passport proudly bearing stamps of different dance/club influences collected from her songwriting quests around the globe.

Her addictive Top 20 hit Til Death – which was co-written with Vitamin C (yes, you read that right) – best encapsulates the album’s fun and energetic side, while the next single Buy My Love – produced by Axwell (Swedish House Mafia) – is a fluorescent summer smash with chick flick soundtrack written all over. It hears cheeky Wynter spending it up with a sugar daddy, “I’m gonna let you spoil me just for the day… No need to thank me baby, your credit card will do!”

Don’t Stop Me is another album highlight, a petulant number that comes club correct with a ferocious spoken word breakdown: “1-2-3-4… I’m gon’ leave you wanting more. 5-6-7-8… you gon’ make it home late!”

The flirtation continues with Drunk on Your Love, a robo-disco stomper Wynter co-wrote with Australia’s own Nervo (the twins who penned David Guetta/Kelly Rowland’s When Love Takes Over). Things get sweaty towards the end when Rumba shows up. You would never believe that Ace of Base co-produced this Middle Eastern-inflected, midnight tribal track, but that’s the gospel truth.

All in all, Wynter Gordon’s album makes a timely arrival in a pop market that hasn’t been more receptive to dance music since the early 90s. However, where that trend has kept our Top 40 jumping with hits after hits about partying and “running the night”, With The Music I Die manages to avoid that clichéd lyrical trap.

Back to You, the sole introspective ballad on the album, is a lonely mind’s reflection on a love discarded. She sings, “I’m a fabulous example of an exhausted wanderer. I can walk all day and smile that this year is success, but it don’t mean shit unless you’re here…”

Everything aside, the single most important track on Wynter Gordon’s debut album is without question Still Getting Younger. The sun-soaked dance ballad, produced by our own Nick Littlemore of Empire of The Sun sounds like a huge festival anthem straight from the 80s. Wynter herself has said that this is her favourite and most personal record on the album. It’s a bittersweet moment when you hear her sing: “I’m not lonely, I just need you to fill this empty space again. I complete you and you can never turn me away. Our love will never end…”

Wrapping up in barely over half an hour, With The Music I Die is a concise cut of all killers, no fillers. I recall all the times I’ve spoken to Wynter about the album and all she could do was gush, “it’s a masterpiece… when you guys hear the album, no one is gonna feel like this is just a dance album. They’ll be like, this is music.”

With The Music I Die is out in Australia this Friday, 17 June.

Check out the video for the Denzel Park Remix of Til Death below.