Review: Hands

Hands, Little Boots (2009)

Hands is generic technoballad; a unique, typically Blackpudlian take on the genre that manages to effectively combine the two influences. Like Blackpool and it's loud and proud image, Ms. Victoria Hesketh fills her music with bombastic imagery. It's a mixture of 80s themes updated for a modern audience.

A lot of the album follows this description; Hesketh doesn't tick the "heartfelt" box but she gets an honourary scribble in the margins of ballad, and combined with her party upbringing she seems perfectly tuned for the majority of markets.

The final, hidden track on the album is pure ballad, and what results from the removal of techno is a brilliant piece that proves that behind the pazazz of her eighties influences, she has an excellent vocal range. With her stylish tones, vocal beauty and expertise of the markets, the result is an album that shines on the shelf and blasts thorugh the ear-phones.

Thanks.