Little Boots

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By Rosie Marsh

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Little Boots

Hands

Foundation: Little Boots’ first offering of sleek synth beats and tongue-in-cheek lyrics is catchy and memorable, without trying to be ‘serious’ and ‘different’.

Eye Shadow Colour: Beneath those luscious false lashes lies a deep palette of golds and rich browns.

Lipstick Rating:

Tips: Use vaseline or false eyelash glue around and under the eye, which acts like a glue, then lightly dab on glitter.

Unlike her other female counterparts, such as Florence and her pretentious-art-school Machine, Little Boots, aka Victoria Hesketh, isn’t innovative, nor is she creating a new ‘sound’, but as a self confessed pop/chart music lover, she isn’t trying to either.

This is a lady who wants to get people tapping their fingers on the wheel in a traffic jam, singing in the shower and partying in nightclubs to good old-fashioned pop music.

Stand out songs on the album Hands are Ghost, a Ringo Starr-esque rhythm and simple walking bassline, Symmetry, which builds up to the chorus in the same way as Remedy, and is a record The Human League would be well within their rights to sue over, incidentally, Phil Oakley features on the record!

The hype surrounding Little Boots is without doubt justified, and she is fast becoming the nation’s sweetheart. The end few tracks on this album are not the usual riff-raff pointless stocking-fillers, which makes a refreshing change.

Tune Into My Heart is 80’s inspired and echoes that of Starship and Fleetwood Mac, a very sincere record, whilst Hearts Collide sounds like it belongs on Kylie’s Fever album.

Meddle has the appealing empty-auditorium sound of a Fame rehersal-session final, and proves that this tiny package of music talent is far from your average ivory-tickler.

Little Boots is fast becoming the one lady in pop you should always be able to rely on to make life taste a little bit more like sprinkled sugar on top.

Myself and Little Boots at Leeds Festival 2009!