Authoritative British music journalists named Little Boots, the alias of the attractive singer Victoria Hesketh, as BBC's Sound Of 2009. This makes her the successor to Adele, who received this honor a year earlier. Purely based on a club single Stuck On Repeat, made in collaboration with Hot Chip's Joe Goddard, Victoria created a huge buzz, which was reflected in the sky-high traffic numbers on
… her MySpace and YouTube pages. Even before her debut album is released, Little Boots has already been programmed at almost all major summer festivals in Europe. Hands only partially explains all the fuss. It shows a hit-sensitive but relatively anonymous electropop sound, in the same vein as Madonna and Kylie Minogue. ' There's absolutely no doubt that she will be a massive star, 'wrote The Independent. Whether we remember this record by then is a completely different story. (MS)more
