Little Boots - Working Girl (Bonus Track Edition) (2015)

Since she emerged as Little Boots in 2008, Victoria Hesketh has been steadily regenerating, caressing her crystalline pop into bold new shapes. Released in 2009, the same year she topped the BBC's "Sound Of" poll, her Top 5 debut album Hands showcased a pop star willing to experiment, fusing massive pop hooks onto squelchy electronic soundscapes, while follow-up album Nocturnes succeeded in its aim to create experimental late night dance music built around classic pop songwriting. But it's on excellent third album Working Girl where the two sides of Hesketh's personality fuse, creating a forward-thinking, constantly shape-shifting pop album that you can delve headlong into. Featuring production from regular collaborator Simian Mobile Disco's Jas Shaw, Com Truise, super producer Ariel Rechtshaid (Haim, Beyonce, Charli XCX), SZA collaborator Patrick Lukens, MNDR's Pete Wade and UK upstart GRADES, as well as songwriting help from Tom Aspaul and Jeppe Laursen ( Lady Gaga's "Born This Way"), the Blackpool-born songwriter has created a unique, brilliantly intoxicating sonic world on Working Girl that pulls at the parameters of pop but remains true to its core.