It sees the Wanderlust girl move away from Eastern Europe to the warmer, sunnier climate of Latin America where she's swapped vodka for tequila.

[9] Instead of showing a glamorous and cosmopolitan Sophie, she is characterised as an inhabitant of a traditional Mexican town, shopping in the market, going to the church, walking in the streets and interacting with locals and eventually going to a bar to drink tequila and dance.

John Aizlewood of the London Evening Standard said, "The pop singer brings ice-cold vocals and massive dance beats on her sixth LP.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor's startling transformation from well-dressed pop poppet to mistress of imperious doom on 2014's Wanderlust didn't quite receive the acclaim it deserved.

But Harcourt and Ellis-Bextor reference a range of pop styles with details like the bubbling synths on 'The Death of Love' and the power chords that launch the album's galloping opener, 'Wild Forever'.

The widescreen love song 'Crystallise', which ranks among Bextor's finest, has a lush chorus ribboned with violin" and praised Sophie for taking the risk with her Wanderlust album and this one saying, "What Familia ultimately recalls is the era of female singer-songwriters.

Sonia de Freitas of Renowned for Sound referred to the album as "highly enjoyable", saying that "Familia is a successful new release by Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

In it, she showcases her skill in writing music in a variety of styles, while showing restraint in the balance of instrumentation (using acoustic, electronic and more traditional timbres).

"[16] Classic Pop magazine wrote that "It's easy to forget Sophie Ellis-Bextor started out in the late-nineties as singer for the indie-rockers Theaudience.

The magazine favoured songs "Here Comes the Rapture", "Unrequited", "Hush Little Voices", "My Puppet Heart" and heralded "Wild Forever" and "Crystallise" as standout tracks.

"The former – an effervescent, galloping pop tune, her voice at its sweetest as it rushes towards an ecstatic chorus – remains closest to the dancefloor-friendly Ellis-Bextor template with which we're most familiar.

All tracks are produced by HarcourtEllis-Bextor and her band toured the album in a number of dates from late 2016 to 2017, mostly in England, but also travelling to Continental Europe (Poland, Russia and Ukraine).