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She may be the most talked-about new artist of 2009, but Victoria Hesketh is an old hand at this whole music malarkey. The Blackpool lass’s background encompasses jazz, indie-pop and even teenage Pop Idol indiscretions, but her debut album is as lacquered with synths and as buffed with slick electro riffs as is humanly possible �" perhaps due, in part, to the spit ‘n’ polish talents of Joe Goddard (Hot Chip) and Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee).

One of the main explanations for Hesketh’s abrupt popularity has been her capacity to adapt songs to suit several genres. There are...