Diana Vickers - Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree (2010)

2010 debut album from the X-Factor contestant/runner-up. Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree is the result of over a year's worth of work for Diana with an amazing array of co-writers and producers. The list of collaborators is as impressive as it is surprising, with Ellie Goulding, Lightspeed Champion, Nerina Pallot, Star smith, Guy Sigsworth and Cathy Dennis all helping to give the record it's mature shape. But it's Diana herself who keeps it box-fresh youthful. Her work with Hackney digi-Folk troubadour Lightspeed Champion on "Me and You" has produced probably the straightest Pop song on the record, ironically with her most unusual collaboration. Ellie Goulding's co-write "Remake Me and You" meanwhile, is the strangest cut on the record a jittery stop-start Electro Boogie that lodges itself straight in the head. Sony/BMG.