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Warning - this playlist is electro-tastic! Featuring Helen Of Troy... favourite Florence and the Machine with latest single Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up), Dismissed by the effing brilliant and ruddy rude Uffie, plus the sublime Lettin' Go courtesy of Ms Janelle Monae. Check it out here.
When grime and indie joined forces in 2007 to make grindie, Helen Of Troy... was expecting a slew of brilliant genre bastardisations in 2008. They never came. Which is why, at the beginning of 2009, we're super-pleased to announce the arrival of dwindie - doo-wop and indie - a new genre created by hotly-tipped Northampton-born, London-based songstress VV Brown.
Ms Brown's début single, Crying Blood, which was released at the tail-end of 2008, is a fantastically catchy gem that mixes 1960s soul and ska with 21st-century pop sensibilities. It might not have set the charts alight in November, but Helen Of Troy... predicts a 2009 re-release that will put VV on the Britpop map.
On her MySpace page, Brown name-checks The B52's and CSS, which is a pretty good indicator of where her music lies. Part catchy retro-pop. Part party electro.
Next single Leave, a slightly slower affair than its predecessor, is released in March, but we reckon we'll be seeing a fair bit more of Ms VV Brown before then. www.myspace.com/vvbrown
